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

Concepts

butcher

slaughter

slaughterer

kill

massacre

killer

skin

slay

murderer

meatman

cut

chop

slaughterman

cut up

assassin

murder

gut

defeat

cut open

dissect

slayer

hangman

blunderer

botcher

bumbler

bungler

fuckup

fumbler

sad sack

stumbler

behead

abase

appease

assuage

beat

breakdown

calm

cover

cut off

demolish

depress

dig up

discourage

dishearten

down

drop

enervate

enfeeble

excavate

exhaust

go through

grub

hack

humiliate

liquidate

mortify

overcome

overthrow

pass through

pull down

quiet

quiten

shoot

shoot dead

soothe

still

surmount

tackle

take down

tranquilize

use up

vanquish

weaken

win over

meat seller

slaughterhouse worker

eviscerate

flense

slice

disembowel

executioner

poacher

flesh-seller

butcher shop

sacrificer

cut down

cut the throat of

operate

skin an animal

baker

candlestick maker

slit open

dress

sacrifice

cutthroat

cut up meat

operate on

remove skin

exterminate

kill off

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈbʊt͡ʃ.ə(ɹ)/

Etymology

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.