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butcher

[ booch-er ]

noun

  1. a retail or wholesale dealer in meat.
  2. a person who slaughters certain animals, or who dresses the flesh of animals, fish, or poultry, for food or market.
  3. a person guilty of brutal or indiscriminate slaughter or murder.

    Synonyms: ,

  4. a vendor who hawks newspapers, candy, beverages, etc., as on a train, at a stadium, etc.


verb (used with object)

  1. to slaughter or dress (animals, fish, or poultry) for market.
  2. to kill indiscriminately or brutally.
  3. to bungle; botch:

    to butcher a job.

butcher

/ 藞产蕣迟蕛蓹 /

noun

  1. a retailer of meat
  2. a person who slaughters or dresses meat for market
  3. an indiscriminate or brutal murderer
  4. a person who destroys, ruins, or bungles something
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

verb

  1. to slaughter or dress (animals) for meat
  2. to kill indiscriminately or brutally
  3. to make a mess of; botch; ruin
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of butcher1

First recorded in 1250鈥1300; Middle English bocher, from Anglo-French; Old French bo(u)chier, equivalent to bo(u)c 鈥渉e-goat鈥 (from unattested Gaulish bucco-; compare Old Irish boc, Welsh bwch; akin to buck 1 ) + -ier -ier 2 ( -er 2 )
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of butcher1

C13: from Old French bouchier , from bouc he-goat, probably of Celtic origin; see buck 1; compare Welsh bwch he-goat
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The title character in Whatever Happened to Phoebe Salt? dreams of swapping the grind of her butcher's job for a life in showbusiness.

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After the verdict was read out in court, Mr Heagney's mother hugged family members and became extremely upset saying "he butchered my son".

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I picked up fresh pork sausage from the good butcher shop in my neighborhood and folded in a couple of eggs, whisked with a splash of cream, to help it all set.

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One particularly devastating crypto fraud is known as 鈥減ig butchering鈥 or 鈥渞omance baiting.鈥

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It flags up things like whether there is a local butcher, bookshops, a park, schools, churches or a farmers' market.

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