butcher

Betekenis (Engels)

Noun

1. A person who prepares and sells meat (and sometimes also slaughters the animals).
2. (figuratively) A brutal or indiscriminate killer.
3. (Cockney, slang) A look.
4. (informal, obsolete) A person who sells candy, drinks, etc. in theatres, trains, circuses, etc.
5. (archaic, colloquial) A king playing card.

Verb

1. (transitive) To slaughter (animals) and prepare (meat) for market.
2. (intransitive) To work as a butcher.
3. (transitive) To kill brutally.
4. (transitive) To ruin (something), often to the point of defamation.
5. (transitive) To mess up hopelessly; to botch; to distort beyond recognition.

Adj

comparative form of butch: more butch

butch

• Adj
• Noun
• Verb

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Sinonieme

slaughter

slaughterer

kill

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Vertalings

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Fleischer

Metzger

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Schlachter

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slachten

Schlächter

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Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/ˈbʊt͡ʃ.ə(ɹ)/

Etimologie (Engels)

Geërf van Middle English: bocher

Verwante met Engels: buck

In summary

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.