botcher

Tink′ler: the act of doing tinker's work: a botcher or bungler: a botch or bungle: a young mackerel.—v.t. to repair, esp. unskilfully.—v.i. to do tinker's work: to make a botch or mess of anything.

But to prevent this botcher of a tailor spoiling it, I will make it myself with closed doors, so that no one sees me.

I know of no species of vandals worse, more primitive or more irresponsible than these botchers.

“I’m laughing to think how lucky you are for a rank beginner an’ botcher!” said Rathburn as they began to eat.

A certain critic finds fault with Circe because she repeats the warning of Tiresias, and he holds that some botcher or editor, not Homer, transferred the passage from one place to the other.