Word of the Day: Botch

Here's a word we've heard a lot today.

botch tr.v. botched, botch·ing, botch·es. To ruin through clumsiness. To make or perform clumsily; bungle. To repair or mend clumsily. n. A ruined or defective piece of work: "I have made a miserable botch of this description" (Nathaniel Hawthorne). A hodgepodge. From the Middle English bocchen, to mend.