butcher

nounverbadjectivecommon in dialogue

United Kingdom//ˈbɵt͡ʃə//
Canada//ˈbʊt͡ʃɚ//
Australia//ˈbʊt͡ʃə//
Scotland//ˈbʉt͡ʃəɾ//
//ˈbʉt͡ʃəɹ//

A person who prepares and sells meat (and sometimes also slaughters the animals).

noun

1
A person who prepares and sells meat (and sometimes also slaughters the animals).
He looked in vain into the stalls for the butcher who had sold fresh meat twice a week, on market days...
2
figurativeA brutal or indiscriminate killer.
Butcher of an innocent child.
3
slangA look.
4
informalA person who sells candy, drinks, etc. in theatres, trains, circuses, etc.
5
archaicA king playing card.

Etymology

From Middle English bocher, boucher, from Old French bouchier (“goat slaughterer”), from Old French bouc (“goat”), from Medieval Latin buccus (“he-goat”), from Frankish *bukk, from Proto-Germanic *bukkaz (“male goat, male deer”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuǵ- (“buck, ram”). See also English buck.

verb

1
To slaughter (animals) and prepare (meat) for market.
2
To work as a butcher.
He tells me he now earns three times as much as he did butchering.
3
To kill brutally.
4
To ruin (something), often to the point of defamation.
The band at that bar really butchered "Hotel California".
5
To mess up hopelessly; to botch; to distort beyond recognition.
I am bad at pronouncing names, so my apologies if I butcher any of your names.

adjective

1
Also a form of butchcomparative form of butch: more butch
Weaver and Shaw dance together and almost immediately another butch, an even butcher butch (Leslie Feinberg), cuts in to dance with Shaw (though Shaw would kill me if she heard me call someone a butcher butch).

Etymology

Etymology tree English butch Proto-Indo-European *-yōs Proto-Germanic *-izô Proto-West Germanic *-iʀō Proto-Germanic *-ōzô Proto-West Germanic *-ōʀō Old English -ra Middle English -ere English -er English butcher From butch + -er.

Forms

plural: butchers
past tense: butchered
past participle: butchered
present participle: butchering
third person singular: butchers

but- · Denotes the presence of four carbon atoms in the parent chain…butch · Very masculine, with a masculine appearance or attitude.Butch · A male nickname.

butcher · A person who prepares and sells meat (and sometimes also slaughters the animals).

Butcher · A surname originating as an occupation for a butcher.butchered · Taken apart professionally, as a butcher might.butler · A manservant having charge of wines and liquors.

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