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Meanings of botcher in English

Catalan
potiner
Spanish
inepto

Someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence.

      potiner
      Usage of botcher in English
      1
      I may be a botcher in life, but I'm for peace and order.
      Light
      2
      But he might balk, A knowledgeable man but a botcher.
      The ginger man
      3
      If I'm a botcher, it's 'cos my father and my grandfather were botchers before me.
      Light
      4
      The drive master's haste indicated that she had been betrayed by the sullen botcher of methods.
      Joan of Arc of the North Woods
      5
      There is less to alter than I thought for-theclumsiest botcher in the world could manage it.
      Ernest Maltravers — Volume 08
      6
      Her distress was so unfeigned that Octavius, not being a woman, comforted her by telling her he was a great botcher.
      Flamsted quarries
      7
      You will say no more about Virginie, a botcher that cannot design a new shape, while I have ideas of my own, I have.
      A Distinguished Provincial at Paris
      8
      His humble trade as a botcher does not allow a fixed tariff, and he is all alone as he vindicates the value of his work.
      Light
      9
      He was a remarkable man, though a mere botcher at his trade; for he could never manage to make his customers' clothes fit their bodies.
      Saved from the Sea; Or, The Loss of the Viper, and her Crew's Sa...
      10
      Mr. Botcher extracted himself from the nooks and crannies of his armchair.
      Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill
      11
      Hunt a tribute to the bellows-like skill of Messrs. Bascom and Botcher.
      Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill
      12
      Were Messrs. Bascom and Botcher going to act the part of Samsons?
      Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill
      13
      Bascom and Botcher are egging him on and making him believe he has.
      Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill
      14
      Messrs. Jane, Botcher, Bascom, and Fleming are not disturbed, and improve their time.
      Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill
      15
      When he walked listlessly into Carlisle it was through the Botcher-gate on the south.
      The Shadow of a Crime: A Cumbrian Romance
      16
      God will hear Mr. Botcher better if he closes his eyes; which he does.
      Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill
      Translations for botcher
      Botcher through the time