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Definition of Butcher
1. Verb. Kill (animals) usually for food consumption. "They want to Butcher the prisoners "; "They slaughtered their only goat to survive the winter"
Specialized synonyms: Chine
Generic synonyms: Kill
Entails: Cut
Derivative terms: Butchery, Butchery, Butchery, Slaughter, Slaughterer
2. Noun. A retailer of meat.
3. Noun. A brutal indiscriminate murderer.
4. Noun. A person who slaughters or dresses meat for market.
Specialized synonyms: Knacker
Generic synonyms: Skilled Worker, Skilled Workman, Trained Worker
Derivative terms: Slaughter
5. Noun. Someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence.
Generic synonyms: Incompetent, Incompetent Person
Derivative terms: Blunder, Botch, Bumble, Bungle, Bungle, Butcherly, Fumble, Stumble
Definition of Butcher
1. n. One who slaughters animals, or dresses their flesh for market; one whose occupation it is to kill animals for food.
2. v. t. To kill or slaughter (animals) for food, or for market; as, to butcher hogs.
Definition of Butcher
1. Proper noun. (surname A=An occupational from=Middle English dot=) for a butcher. ¹
2. Noun. A person who prepares and sells meat (and sometimes also slaughters the animals). ¹
3. Noun. A brutal or indiscriminate killer. ¹
4. Noun. (Cockney rhyming slang, via ''butcher's hook'') A look. ¹
5. Noun. A person who sells candy, drinks, etc. in theatres, trains, circuses , etc. (old, informal). ¹
6. Verb. (transitive) To slaughter animals and prepare meat for market. ¹
7. Verb. (transitive) To kill brutally. ¹
8. Verb. (transitive) To ruin something, often to the point of defamation. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Butcher
1. to slaughter [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: slaughter
Medical Definition of Butcher
1.
1. To kill or slaughter (animals) for food, or for market; as, to butcher hogs.
2. To murder, or kill, especially in an unusually bloody or barbarous manner. "[Ithocles] was murdered, rather butchered." (Ford)
Origin: Butchered; . Butchering.
1. One who slaughters animals, or dresses their flesh for market; one whose occupation it is to kill animals for food.
2. A slaughterer; one who kills in large numbers, or with unusual cruelty; one who causes needless loss of life, as in battle. "Butcher of an innocent child.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Butcher
Literary usage of Butcher
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1886)
"Butcher is known among topographers by his account of Sidmouth, ... 1813,
4to (intended as a sort of family Bible ; Butcher assisted Worthington and others ..."
2. The Friend of Peace by Noah Worcester, Massachusetts Peace Society (1827)
"Twenty thousand Turks perished on that day, and occasioned the Russian General
to be surnamed The Butcher." Biographic Moderne—Article Suwarrow. ..."
3. Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England, from by John Campbell Campbell (1847)
"In his own lifetime, he was called " the butcher's dog;" and Shakspeare, who must
have ... Polydore Virgil speaks of his father as " a butcher;" and Fuller, ..."
4. English and Scottish Ballads edited by Francis James Child (1860)
"ROBIN HOOD AND THE Butcher. ... Upon a time it chanced so, 5 Bold Robin in forrest
did 'spy A jolly butcher, with a bonny fine mare, With his flesh to the ..."
5. Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary, Historical and by John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley (1902)
"The penis ; and (2) a butcher's skewer (see quot. 1622, with a pun on both senses
of the word). Hence PRICK- HOLDER (-PURSE, -SCOURER, ОГ -SKINNER) = the ..."
6. Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse by Anna Sewell (1904)
"THE Butcher I SAW a great deal of trouble amongst the horses in London, and much
of it that might have been prevented by a little common w«s sense. ..."