botchery
(ˈbɒtʃərɪ)
[f. botcher1: see -ery.]
A botcher's work; clumsy or awkward workmanship or its result; patchwork.
| 1608 World of Wonders 235 (L.) If we speak of base botchery. 1674 R. Godfrey Inj. & Ab. Physic Pref., I, who always hated Botchery, might have real Art. 1732 De Foe, etc. Tour Gt. Brit. (1769) I. 277 Disgrace this fine Piece, and make it mere Botchery. 1880 Webb tr. Goethe's Faust Prel. 10 Your pretty masters, with their botchery. |
b. ? Jobbery: cf. botcher1 2 c.
| 1624 Bp. R. Montagu Gagg 35 Those manifold botcheries, and brokerages of your Romish church. |