Obs. [f. BOTCH sb.1 + -Y1.] Pertaining to, or of the nature of, a botch; covered with botches or excrescences.
1398. Trevisa, Barth. De P. R., V. xxiv. (1495), 132. The grystels the fyrst of whyche is knotty and botchy.
c. 1450. Nominale, in Wr.-Wülcker, 710. Gibbosus, bochy.
1606. Shaks., Tr. & Cr., II. i. 6. Were not that a botchy core.
1768. Tucker, Lt. Nat., II. 331. We may claim Mahometism as a botchy excrescence or spurious offspring of the Gospel.
