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Botch vs Gotch - What's the difference?

botch | gotch |

As nouns the difference between botch and gotch

is that botch is an action, job, or task that has been performed very badly or botch can be (obsolete) a tumour or other malignant swelling while gotch is (saskatchewan|and|manitoba|slang) men's underwear.

As a verb botch

is to perform (a task) in an unacceptable or incompetent manner; to make a mess of something; to ruin; to bungle; to spoil; to destroy.

botch

English

(wikipedia botch)

Etymology 1

(etyl) , of uncertain origin.

Verb

(es)
  • To perform (a task) in an unacceptable or incompetent manner; to make a mess of something; to ruin; to bungle; to spoil; to destroy.
    • A botched haircut seems to take forever to grow out.
  • To do something without skill, without care, or clumsily.

    • Noun

    (botches)
  • An action, job, or task that has been performed very badly.
  • A patch put on, or a part of a garment patched or mended in a clumsy manner.
  • A ruined, defective, or clumsy piece of work; mess; bungle.
  • * Shakespeare
    • To leave no rubs nor botches in the work.
  • A mistake that is very stupid or embarrassing.
  • A messy, disorderly or confusing combination; conglomeration; hodgepodge.

    • Related terms

    * bodge

    See also

    * foul up * mess up * screw up

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) boche, from .

    Noun

    (botches)
  • (obsolete) A tumour or other malignant swelling.
  • * Milton
    • Botches and blains must all his flesh emboss.
  • A case or outbreak of boils or sores.
  • * 1395 , (John Wycliffe), Bible , Job II:
    • Therfor Sathan ?ede out fro the face of the Lord, and smoot Joob with a ful wickid botche fro the sole of the foot til to his top [...].
  • * 1611 , Bible ((Authorized Version)), Deuteronomy XXVIII:
    • The LORD will smite thee with the botch of Egypt, and with the emerods, and with the scab, and with the itch, whereof thou canst not be healed.

    gotch

    English

    (Undergarment)

    Noun

    (-)
  • (Saskatchewan, and, Manitoba, slang) Men's underwear.
  • * 1998 , Steven Erikson, This River Awakens , Tor (2013), ISBN 9780765334992, unnumbered page:
    • I stopped beside Carl. 'Go ahead,' I told him. 'Pull his gotch right up over his fucking head.'
  • * 2009 , Milton Ramsden, Northward to Love , Trafford Publishing (2009), ISBN 9781425190262, page 56:
    • Hilly howled as he lit the lamp and dove toward us clad in only his gotch .
  • * 2013 , D. W. Wilson, Ballistics , Hamish Hamilton (2013), ISBN 9780670065752, unnumbered page:
    • So I was off atop a mountain, a day out of town and soaked through the gotch , when Jack spotted the American car.
  • *

    • Derived terms

    * gitch * gaunch, gonch, ginch (qualifier) * gotchies, gitchies, gonchies (diminutive)

    References

    * * Barber, Katherine. " 11 Favourite Regionalisms Within Canada", in David Vallechinsky and Amy Wallace (2005). The Book of Lists , Canadian Edition. Knopf. ISBN 978-0-676-97720-2.