[f. BOTCH v. + -ING2.] That botches; repairing, jobbing; bungling.

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1598.  Florio, Taccola … a patching, or botching piece of worke, a bungling.

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1661.  S. Partridge, Double Scale Proportion, To Rdr. The fault is in the botching Taylor, not in the stuffe.

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1834.  H. Miller, Scenes & Leg., xxviii. (1857), 424. An old botching carpenter.

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