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Potch vs Botch - What's the difference?

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As verbs the difference between potch and botch

is that potch is to thrust or potch can be (to cook in simmering water) while 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.

As nouns the difference between potch and botch

is that potch is (chiefly|australia|mineralogy|gemmology) a type of rough opal without colour, and therefore not worth selling while botch is an action, job, or task that has been performed very badly or botch can be (obsolete) a tumour or other malignant swelling.

potch

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) ; akin to (poach).

Verb

  • To thrust.
  • * (editors), ''Cassell's Illustrated Shakespeare: The Plays of Shakespeare , Volume 3: Tragedies, page 83,
    • I'll potch at him some way, / Or wrath or craft may get him.
  • To trample.
  • * 1837 , John Orville Taylor, The Farmer?s School Book , page 116,
    • Afterwards, the second pasture should be treated in the same manner, and the rest in course, feeding the wettest pasture after the driest, that the soil may be less potched .

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (-)
  • (chiefly, Australia, mineralogy, gemmology) A type of rough opal without colour, and therefore not worth selling.
  • * 1982 , Gemmological Association of Great Britain, The Journal of Gemmology , Volume 18, page 432,
    • Discusses the difference between potch' opal and common opal. The terms are often used synonymously, but this writer shows that ' potch is found only in association with precious opal and differs from common opal in its structure quite substantially.
  • * 1996 , , Virago Press, paperback edition, page 75,
    • She set them down with precision, she set them down with the same kind of care that Bernie took when he and his underlings cut opal, or when they polished the rough stones, or when they bonded opal veneer on to potch .
  • * 2006 , Michael O'Donoghue, Gems: Their Sources, Descriptions and Identification , 6th Edition, Elsevier, UK, page 321,
    • Likewise, a thin piece of good opal on potch' (opal with no play of colour) may be cut so that the ' potch acts as a backing.

    Etymology 3

    Verb

    (es)
  • (to cook in simmering water).
    • (Wiseman)
  • * 1627 , , Sylva Sylvarum: Or, A Natural History, in Ten Centuries , 1670, page 14,
    • The Yolks of Eggs'' are of them?elves ?o well prepared by ''Nature'' for nourishment, as (?o they be Potched , or Rear boyled) they need no other preparation or mixture; yet they may be taken al?o raw, when they are new laid, with ''Malm?ey'' or ''Sweet Wine .
  • * 1849 , , Thomas Johnson (translator), Adriaan van den Spiegel (additional tractates), Concerning the Plague'', ''The Workes of that Famous Chirurgion Ambro?e Parey , page 553,
    • Eggs potched and eaten with the juice of Sorrel, are verie good. Likewi?e Barlie-water ?ea?oned with the grains of a tart Pomgranat, and if the Fever bee vehement, with the ?eeds of white Poppie.
  • * 1860 , Notes and Queries'', ''The Medical Times and Gazette , Volume 1: For 1860, page 167,
    • And if a man should break his fast with a light and nourishing meate, then I say there is nothing better than a couple of egges potched , or the yolkes of two egges sodden rere and put in one shell, seasoned with a little pepper, butter and salt, supped off warme, drinking after it a good draught of claret wine.

    See also

    * hotchpotch

    Anagrams

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    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.