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Butcher
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- 1 comparative form of butch: more butch comparative, form-of
"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)."
- 1 A surname originating as an occupation for a butcher.
- 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 someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence wordnet
- 3 A brutal or indiscriminate killer. figuratively
"Butcher of an innocent child."
- 4 a person who slaughters or dresses meat for market wordnet
- 5 A look. Cockney, slang
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- 6 a brutal indiscriminate murderer wordnet
- 7 A person who sells candy, drinks, etc. in theatres, trains, circuses, etc. informal, obsolete
- 8 a retailer of meat wordnet
- 9 A king playing card. archaic, colloquial
- 1 To slaughter (animals) and prepare (meat) for market. transitive
- 2 kill (animals) usually for food consumption wordnet
- 3 To work as a butcher. intransitive
"He tells me he now earns three times as much as he did butchering."
- 4 To kill brutally. transitive
- 5 To ruin (something), often to the point of defamation. transitive
"The band at that bar really butchered "Hotel California"."
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- 6 To mess up hopelessly; to botch; to distort beyond recognition. transitive
"I am bad at pronouncing names, so my apologies if I butcher any of your names."
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.
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.
From butch + -er.
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