Word Meanings - BOTCHY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Marked with botches; full of botches; poorly done. "This botchy business." Bp. Watson.
Related words: (words related to BOTCHY)
- MARKETABLENESS
Quality of being marketable. - BUSINESS
The position, distribution, and order of persons and properties on the stage of a theater, as determined by the stage manager in rehearsal. 7. Care; anxiety; diligence. Chaucer. To do one's business, to ruin one. Wycherley. -- To make one's - MARKETER
One who attends a market to buy or sell; one who carries goods to market. - MARKETSTEAD
A market place. Drayton. - MARK
A license of reprisals. See Marque. - MARKSMAN
One who makes his mark, instead of writing his name, in signing documents. Burrill. (more info) 1. One skillful to hit a mark with a missile; one who shoots well. - MARKABLE
Remarkable. Sandys. - MARKIS
A marquis. Chaucer. - MARKER
One who or that which marks. Specifically: One who keeps account of a game played, as of billiards. A counter used in card playing and other games. The soldier who forms the pilot of a wheeling column, or marks the direction of an alignment. An - BUSINESSLIKE
In the manner of one transacting business wisely and by right methods. - MARKISESSE
A marchioness. Chaucer. - MARKEE
See MARQUEE - MARKED
Designated or distinguished by, or as by, a mark; hence; noticeable; conspicuous; as, a marked card; a marked coin; a marked instance. -- Mark"ed*ly, adv. J. S. Mill. A marked man, a man who is noted by a community, or by a part of it, - MARKETABLE
1. Fit to be offered for sale in a market; such as may be justly and lawfully sold; as, dacayemarketable. 2. Current in market; as, marketable value. 3. Wanted by purchasers; salable; as, furs are not marketable in that country. - MARKMAN
A marksman. Shak. - MARKET
The privelege granted to a town of having a public market. Note: Market is often used adjectively, or in forming compounds of obvious meaning; as, market basket, market day, market folk, market house, marketman, market place, market price, market - MARKETING
1. The act of selling or of purchasing in, or as in, a market. 2. Articles in, or from, a market; supplies. - MARKSMANSHIP
Skill of a marksman. - POORLY
1. In a poor manner or condition; without plenty, or sufficiency, or suitable provision for comfort; as, to live poorly. 2. With little or no success; indifferently; with little profit or advantage; as, to do poorly in business. 3. Meanly; without - BOTCHY
Marked with botches; full of botches; poorly done. "This botchy business." Bp. Watson. - TRADE-MARK
A peculiar distinguishing mark or device affixed by a manufacturer or a merchant to his goods, the exclusive right of using which is recognized by law. - SEAMARK
Any elevated object on land which serves as a guide to mariners; a beacon; a landmark visible from the sea, as a hill, a tree, a steeple, or the like. Shak. - BOOKMARK
Something placed in a book to guide in finding a particular page or passage; also, a label in a book to designate the owner; a bookplate. - COMMARK
The frontier of a country; confines. Shelton. - REMARKER
One who remarks. - FOOTMARK
A footprint; a track or vestige. Coleridge. - SWANMARK
A mark of ownership cut on the bill or swan. Encyc. Brit. - NEWMARKET
A long, closely fitting cloak. - COUNTERMARK
An artificial cavity made in the teeth of horses that have outgrown their natural mark, to disguise their age. (more info) 1. A mark or token added to those already existing, in order to afford security or proof; as, an additional or special mark - POCKMARKED
Marked by smallpox; pitted. - RE-MARK
To mark again, or a second time; to mark anew. - HALL-MARK
The official stamp of the Goldsmiths' Company and other assay offices, in the United Kingdom, on gold and silver articles, attesting their purity. Also used figuratively; -- as, a word or phrase lacks the hall-mark of the best writers.