botch, n.¹ — Green’s Dictionary of Slang

botch n.¹

also botcher

[abbr. SE botcher, one who repairs or patches; also note SE bodger and dial. botch, a cobbler]

a tailor.

1773		Harris’s List of Covent-Garden Ladies 58: Poor R-shb--k! how thou art fallen [...] to take up with a taylor, the ninth part of a man – a fellow made up of old measures and list – a cabbage of cloth – a botcher.
c.1786		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue ms. additions n.p.: Botch a Nick name for a Taylor.
[c.1790		‘Peter Pindar’ ‘The Remonstrance’ Works (1794) III 78: I’m a poor botching tailor].
1811		Lex. Balatronicum.
1823		Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.