Words: botch [AHED]

(Botch may have originally been ironic, since its original meaning was to mend -- but later, a failed attempt of same.)

PRONUNCIATION: boch
TRANSITIVE VERB: Inflected forms: botched, botch·ing, botch·es
1. To ruin through clumsiness. 2. To make or perform clumsily; bungle. 3. To repair or mend clumsily.
NOUN: 1. A ruined or defective piece of work: “I have made a miserable botch of this description” (Nathaniel Hawthorne). 2. A hodgepodge.
ETYMOLOGY: Middle English bocchen, to mend.