▪ I. † ˈbotching, vbl. n.1 Obs. rare—1.
[f. botch n.1 + -ing1.]
The forming of botches or boils.
| 1398 Trevisa Barth. De P.R. vii. xxxi. (1495) 245 By botchynge of the lounges all the body is wasted. |
▪ II. botching, vbl. n.2
(ˈbɒtʃɪŋ)
[f. botch v.1 + -ing1.]
The action of repairing or mending; clumsy patching; unskilful or bungling work.
| c 1440 Promp. Parv. 5 A bocchement, or a bocchynge, augmentum. a 1535 Fisher Wks. 358 O corruptible body which..dayly needeth reprations and botching vp with meate and drinke. 1656 Sanderson Serm. (1689) 392 The botching in of a course shred into a fine garment. 1691 T. H[ale] Acc. New Invent. &c. 98 That patching and botching with Solder. 1719 De Foe Crusoe (1840) I. ix. 159, I set to work a-tailoring, or rather indeed a-botching. 1865 Ruskin Eth. Dust v. (1883) 87 All doubt, and repenting, and botching, and retouching, and wondering what it will be best to do next, are vice, as well as misery. |
▪ III. botching, ppl. a.
(ˈbɒtʃɪŋ)
[f. botch v. + -ing2.]
That botches; repairing, jobbing; bungling.
| 1598 Florio, Taccola..a patching, or botching piece of worke, a bungling. 1661 S. Partridge Double Scale Proportion To Rdr., The fault is in the botching Taylor, not in the stuffe. 1834 H. Miller Scenes & Leg. xxviii. (1857) 424 An old botching carpenter. |