botch vs mess

botch

verb
  • To repair or mend clumsily. 

  • To do something without skill, without care, or clumsily. 

  • To perform (a task) in an unacceptable or incompetent manner; to make a mess of something 

noun
  • An action, job, or task that has been performed very badly; a ruined, defective, or clumsy piece of work. 

  • A mistake that is very stupid or embarrassing. 

  • A messy, disorderly or confusing combination; conglomeration; hodgepodge. 

  • A case or outbreak of boils or sores. 

  • A patch put on, or a part of a garment patched or mended in a clumsy manner. 

mess

verb
  • To supply with a mess. 

  • To eat (with others). 

  • To make soiled by ejaculating. 

  • To screw around with, to bother, to be annoying to. 

  • To belong to a mess. 

  • To make soiled by defecating. 

  • To take meals with a mess. 

  • To throw into disorder or to ruin. 

  • To interfere. 

noun
  • A disagreeable mixture or confusion of things; hence, a situation resulting from blundering or from misunderstanding. 

  • A building or room in which mess is eaten. 

  • A number of persons who eat together, and for whom food is prepared in common, especially military personnel who eat at the same table. 

  • The milk given by a cow at one milking. 

  • A large quantity or number. 

  • Excrement. 

  • A person in a state of (especially emotional) turmoil or disarray; an emotional wreck. 

  • A dessert of fruit and cream, similar to a fool. 

  • A group of iguanas. 

  • A set of four (from the old practice of dividing companies into sets of four at dinner). 

How often have the words botch and mess occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )