butcher

Meaning

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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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

Translations

macellaio

boucher

carnicero

abattre

Fleischer

Metzger

schlachten

slager

Schlachter

matar

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slachten

Schlächter

macellare

carnisser

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”), from Frankish *bukk, from Proto-Germanic *bukkaz (“male goat, male deer”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuǵ- (“buck, ram”). See also English buck.