botcher

plural botchers

1. obsoleteA person who mends things, especially such a cobbler or tailor.

   Two faults, madonna, that drink and good counsel will amend: for give the dry fool drink, then is the fool not dry; bid the dishonest man mend himself: if he mend, he is no longer dishonest; if he cannot, let the botcher mend him.

   1602, William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

2. obsoletechairmaker
3. A clumsy or incompetent worker; a bungler.

   "What you mean, comparing me to them botchers and bunglers? There ain't anybody but me in the furniture restoring line."

   1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 77

   1 more example

   Dilettanteism presupposes art as botchwork does handicraft; and the Dilettante holds the same relation to the artist that the botcher does to the craftsman.

   1874, The Quarterly Review, volume 137, page 388

4. A young salmon; a grilse.