butcher
see also: Butcher
Pronunciation Noun
Butcher
Proper noun
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see also: Butcher
Pronunciation Noun
butcher (plural butchers)
- A person who prepares and sells meat (and sometimes also slaughters the animals).
- (figurative) A brutal or indiscriminate killer.
- c. 1596, William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act IV, scene ii]:
- Butcher of an innocent child.
- (Cockney rhyming slang, from butcher's hook) A look.
- (informal, obsolete) A person who sells candy, drinks, etc. in theatres, trains, circuses, etc.
- French: boucher, bouchère
- German: Fleischer, Metzger, Schlachter
- Italian: macellaio
- Portuguese: talhante (Portugal), açougueiro, açougueira (Brazil)
- Russian: мясни́к
- Spanish: carnicero, carnicera, oficial
- German: Schlächter
- Italian: macellaio, carnefice
- Portuguese: carniceiro
- Russian: мясни́к
butcher (butchers, present participle butchering; past and past participle butchered)
- (transitive) To slaughter (animals) and prepare (meat) for market.
- Synonyms: kill, slaughter
- (transitive) To kill brutally.
- Synonyms: massacre, slay
- (transitive) To ruin (something), often to the point of defamation.
- The band at that bar really butchered "Hotel California".
- Synonyms: murder
- French: abattre
- German: schlachten
- Italian: macellare
- Portuguese: abater, talhar, cortar
- Spanish: carnear, matar, destazar
- French: abattre
- German: niedermetzeln
- Italian: massacrare
- Portuguese: trucidar, massacrar
- Spanish: masacrar
- French: charcuter
- Italian: rovinare, danneggiare
- comparative form of butch
Butcher
Proper noun
- Surname for a butcher.
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