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Notcher vs Botcher - What's the difference?

notcher | botcher |

As nouns the difference between notcher and botcher

is that notcher is one who makes notches while botcher is a person who mends things, especially such a cobbler or tailor.

notcher

English

Etymology 1

. Cricket scorers originally kept score by making notches in wood.

Noun

(en noun)
  • One who makes notches.
  • (cricket) A scorer.

    • Etymology 2

    From a contraction of not your, as in "notcher balls/pussy, notcher ass."

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (slang) The perineum.
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    • Synonyms
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    botcher

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A person who mends things, especially such a cobbler or tailor
  • *1602 , William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night :
  • *:Two faults, madonna, that drink and good counsel will amend: for give the dry fool drink, then is the fool not dry; bid the dishonest man mend himself: if he mend, he is no longer dishonest; if he cannot, let the botcher mend him.
  • A clumsy or incompetent worker; a bungler
  • A young salmon; a grilse.

    • Related terms

    * botch