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butcher

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English

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a butcher

Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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FromMiddle Englishbocher,boucher, fromOld Frenchbouchier(goat slaughterer), fromOld Frenchbouc(goat), fromMedieval Latinbuccus(he-goat), ofGermanic origin. More atEnglishbuck.

Noun

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butcher (pluralbutchers)

  1. Aperson whoprepares andsellsmeat (and sometimes alsoslaughters theanimals).
  2. (figurative) Abrutal orindiscriminatekiller.
    Synonyms:carnager,mayhemist
  3. (Cockney rhyming slang, from butcher's hook) Alook.
  4. (informal, obsolete) A person who sells candy, drinks, etc. in theatres, trains,circuses, etc.
  5. (colloquial, archaic, card games) Akingplaying card.
    Coordinate term:bitch
Synonyms
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Derived terms
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Descendants
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Translations
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person who prepares and sells meat
brutal or indiscriminate killer
person who sells candy, drinks, etc.

Verb

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butcher (third-person singular simple presentbutchers,present participlebutchering,simple past and past participlebutchered)

  1. (transitive) To slaughter (animals) and prepare (meat) formarket.
    Synonyms:kill,slaughter
  2. (intransitive) To work as a butcher.
    • 2008,Monte Dwyer,Red In The Centre: The Australian Bush Through Urban Eyes, Monyer Pty Ltd, page121:
      He tells me he now earns three times as much as he didbutchering.
  3. (transitive) To kill brutally.
    Synonyms:massacre,slay
  4. (transitive) To ruin (something), often to the point ofdefamation.
    Synonym:murder
    The band at that bar reallybutchered "Hotel California".
  5. (transitive) To mess up hopelessly; tobotch; todistort beyond recognition.
    Synonyms:debase,bastardize
    I am bad at pronouncing names, so my apologies if Ibutcher any of your names.
Translations
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slaughter animals and prepare meat for market
kill brutally
ruin something
to mess up
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References

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  • (king playing card):1873, John Camden Hotten,The Slang Dictionary

Etymology 2

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Frombutch +‎-er.

Adjective

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butcher

  1. comparative form ofbutch: morebutch
    • 2003, Alisa Solomon,Re-Dressing the Canon: Essays on Theatre and Gender, page170:
      Weaver and Shaw dance together and almost immediately another butch, an evenbutcher butch (Leslie Feinberg), cuts in to dance with Shaw (though Shaw would kill me if she heard me call someone a butcher butch).

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