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butcher

substantivoverboadjetivocorrente nos diálogos

  • Reino Unido//ˈbɵt͡ʃə//
  • Canadá//ˈbʊt͡ʃɚ//
  • Austrália//ˈbʊt͡ʃə//
  • Escócia//ˈbʉt͡ʃəɾ//
  • //ˈbʉt͡ʃəɹ//

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

substantivo

  1. 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. 2

    figuradoA brutal or indiscriminate killer.

    Butcher of an innocent child.

  3. 3

    calãoA look.

  4. 4

    informalA person who sells candy, drinks, etc. in theatres, trains, circuses, etc.

  5. 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. 1

    To slaughter (animals) and prepare (meat) for market.

  2. 2

    To work as a butcher.

    He tells me he now earns three times as much as he did butchering.

  3. 3

    To kill brutally.

  4. 4

    To ruin (something), often to the point of defamation.

    The band at that bar really butchered "Hotel California".

  5. 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.

adjetivo

  1. 1

    Também uma forma de 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.

Formas

plural
butchers
pretérito
butchered
particípio passado
butchered
gerúndio
butchering
3.ª pessoa do singular
butchers
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Conteúdo lexical proveniente do Wiktionary, sob licença CC BY-SA 4.0 · Entrada de origem · Versão dos dados 2026-08-23

Posição entre as palavras do corpus OpenSubtitles 2018 — legendas de cinema e televisão, ou seja língua falada e não escrita (CC BY-SA 3.0).