butcher
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A person who prepares and sells meat (and sometimes also slaughters the animals).
sostantivo
- 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
figuratoA brutal or indiscriminate killer.
Butcher of an innocent child.
- 3
gergoA look.
- 4
informaleA person who sells candy, drinks, etc. in theatres, trains, circuses, etc.
- 5
arcaicoA king playing card.
Etimologia
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.
verbo
- 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.
aggettivo
- 1
Anche una forma di 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).
Etimologia
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.
Forme
- plurale
- butchers
- passato
- butchered
- participio passato
- butchered
- participio presente
- butchering
- 3ª persona singolare
- butchers
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.