BOTCHER • DICTIONARY ONE.COM • Definition of Botcher

... been, I fear, a clumsy botcher in applying the lessons that Browning was able to teach, but the dramatic monologues of which this volume is largely composed owe whatever art they may possess to his example. My dramatic studies are drawn from life. For example, the local preacher who expresses ...

— Songs of the Ridings • F. W. Moorman

... was mine, I would turn over a new leaf — I don't see why the sarvants of Wales shouldn't drink fair water, and eat hot cakes and barley cale, as they do in Scotland, without troubling the botcher above once a quarter — I hope you keep accunt of Roger's purseeding in reverence to the buttermilk. I expect my dew when I come huom, without baiting an ass, I'll assure you. — As you must have layed a great many more eggs than would be eaten, I do suppose there is ...

— The Expedition of Humphry Clinker • Tobias Smollett