5 letters · 12 points in Scrabble
noun an embarrassing mistake
verb make a mess of, destroy or ruin
originFrom Middle English bocchen (“to mend”), of uncertain origin. Possibly from Old English bōtettan (“to improve; cure; remedy; repair”), related to boot, or from Middle Dutch botsen, butsen, boetsen (“to repair; patch”), related to beat. Doublet of bodge.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0