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1. (n.) butcher
a retail or wholesale dealer in meat.
2. butcher
a person who slaughters certain animals or dresses their flesh for food or market.
3. butcher
a person guilty of brutal or indiscriminate murder.
4. butcher
a vendor who hawks refreshments, newspapers, etc., as on a train.
5. (v.t.) butcher
to slaughter or dress (animals) for market.
6. butcher
to kill indiscriminately or brutally.
7. butcher
to bungle; botch:
to butcher a job.
Etymology: (1250–1300; ME bocher < AF; OF bo(u)chier, der. of bo(u)c he-goat)
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1. (noun) butcher, meatman
a retailer of meat
2. (noun) butcher
a brutal indiscriminate murderer
3. (noun) butcher, slaughterer
a person who slaughters or dresses meat for market
4. (verb) bungler, blunderer, fumbler, bumbler, stumbler, sad sack, botcher, butcher, fuckup
someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence
5. (verb) butcher, slaughter
kill (animals) usually for food consumption
"They slaughtered their only goat to survive the winter"
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1. (noun) butcher
sb who cuts and sells meat
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| Definition of 'Butcher' |
Webster Dictionary |
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1. (noun) Butcher
one who slaughters animals, or dresses their flesh for market; one whose occupation it is to kill animals for food
2. (noun) Butcher
a slaughterer; one who kills in large numbers, or with unusual cruelty; one who causes needless loss of life, as in battle
3. (verb) Butcher
to kill or slaughter (animals) for food, or for market; as, to butcher hogs
4. (verb) Butcher
to murder, or kill, especially in an unusually bloody or barbarous manner
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Sense: a person whose business is to kill cattle etc for food and/or sell their flesh.
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 Afrikaans: slagter |
 Arabic: لَحّام، قَصّاب |
 Bulgarian: касапин |
 Brazilian: açougueiro |
 Czech: řezník |
 German: der Fleischer, der Metzge |
 Danish: slagter |
 Greek: χασάπης |
 Spanish: carnicero |
 Estonian: lihunik, lihamüüja |
 Farsi: قصاب |
 Finnish: teurastaja |
 French: boucher/-ère |
 Hebrew: קָצַב |
 Hindi: कसाई, बूचड़ |
 Croatian: mesar |
 Hungarian: hentes, mészáros |
 Indonesian: penjagal |
 Icelandic: slátrari |
 Italian: macellaio |
 Japanese: 肉屋 |
 Korean: 정육점 주인 |
 Lithuanian: mėsininkas, skerdėjas |
 Latvian: miesnieks |
 Malay: penjual daging |
 Dutch: slager |
 Norwegian: slakter |
 Polish: rzeźnik |
 Persian: قصاب |
 Pashto: قصاب |
 Portuguese: homem do talho |
 Romanian: măcelar |
 Russian: мясник |
 Slovak: mäsiar, -ka |
 Slovenian: mesar |
 Serbian: mesar |
 Swedish: slaktare |
 Thai: คนชำแหละเนื้อสัตว์ |
 Turkish: kasap |
 Taiwanese: 屠夫 |
 Ukrainian: м'ясник |
 Urdu: قصائی ، قصاب |
 Vietnamese: người hàng thịt |
 Chinese: 屠夫 |
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