Word Type

Noun

Verb

Proper Noun

Adjective

The word "butcher" can be used as noun, verb, proper noun and adjective.

Word Relationships

Opposites (Antonyms)

baker gentle

Typical Location

grocery store market

Capable Of

bone chicken bone meat bone peice of meat bone piece of meat bone roast cut beef quarter cut meat cut meat with knife dress side of beef man meat grinder quarter carcass quarter chicken quarter cow quarter duck quarter ham quarter piece of meat quarter slab of meat ready meat salt pork sell meat

Coordinate Terms

bitch

Derived Terms

Piccadilly butcher butcher bird butcher block butcher blue butcher boy butcher knife butcher paper butcher shop butcher stripes butcher's butcher's apron butcher's bill butcher's block butcher's broom butcher's hook butcher's knife butcher's mourning butcher's paper butcher's steak butcher's stripes butcher's thumb butcherbird butcherdom butcherer butcheress butcherless butcherlike butcherly butcherous butchershop fit as a butcher's dog horse butcher news butcher outbutcher pig butcher pork butcher slink butcher

Derived From

butch

Distinct From

baker

Entails

cut

Etymologically Related To

buck

Inflected/Variant Forms

butch

Context

cockney rhyming slang from butcher's hook

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

incompetent incompetent person kill liquidator manslayer merchandiser merchant murderer skilled worker trained worker

Type Of (IsA)

food worker merchant murderer skilled worker

Manner Of

kill

Receives Action

found in market

Related Terms

animal animals apron baker baker candlestick beef bloody bloody apron brutal candlestick carver chopped chopped flesh chopper circus cleaver cleaver person cuts cuts animals cuts meat cutter cutting cutting meat dead dead meat department farms flesh food hacks hacks meat human indiscriminate job killer knifes knives look man market meat meat carver meat chopper meat cutter meat department meat man meat market meat seller meat shop much much meat occupation other other shops person prepare profession sell seller shop shops sides sides beef slaughter

Synonym Network

blunder botch bungle bungler carnager massacre mayhemist slaughter slaughterer slayer

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.