Other forms: botched, botching, botches
To botch is to do a job so badly it has to be done again. Botch the repair, a botched job, botched it completely.
It is about incompetence rather than laziness — a botched job was attempted and failed, which is what makes the word sting. Botched is standard in reporting on surgery and on public projects. Note that the Middle English verb meant to mend, so botching once meant repairing rather than ruining.
1verbbotchTo do a job so badly it has to be done again.
“The builders botched the new roof, and it started leaking the first time it rained.”
botch is a bungling.
Middle English bocchen meant to mend or patch. The sense of doing it badly came later.
Middle Dutch
botsen
Old English
bōtettan — to improve; cure; remedy; repair
Middle English
bocchen — to mend
English, today
botch
Built from
From Middle English bocchen (“to mend”), of uncertain origin. Possibly from Old English bōtettan (“to improve; cure; remedy; repair”), related to boot, or from Middle Dutch botsen, butsen, boetsen (“to repair; patch”), related to beat. a doublet of bodge.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA