butcher

Meaning

Noun

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

Verb

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

Adj

comparative form of butch: more butch

Synonyms

slaughter

slaughterer

kill

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massacre

skin

killer

murderer

cut

meatman

slay

murder

chop

cut up

assassin

slaughterman

gut

bumbler

sad sack

hangman

defeat

fuckup

stumbler

behead

slayer

blunderer

botcher

dissect

cut open

bungler

fumbler

hack

humiliate

kill off

liquidate

mortify

operate

overcome

overthrow

pass through

poacher

pull down

quiet

quiten

sacrifice

sacrificer

shoot

shoot dead

slice

soothe

still

surmount

tackle

take down

tranquilize

use up

vanquish

weaken

win over

butcher shop

cut the throat of

meat seller

operate on

skin an animal

slit open

slaughterhouse worker

remove skin

flesh-seller

candlestick maker

abase

cut up meat

appease

assuage

baker

beat

breakdown

calm

cover

cut down

cut off

cutthroat

demolish

depress

dig up

discourage

disembowel

dishearten

down

dress

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drop

enervate

enfeeble

eviscerate

excavate

executioner

exhaust

exterminate

flense

go through

grub

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈbʊt͡ʃ.ə(ɹ)/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: bocher

Cognate with English: 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”), of Germanic origin. More at English buck.