Definitions for Butcher
ˈbʊtʃ ərbutch·er

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. butcher, meatmannoun

   a retailer of meat

2. butchernoun

   a brutal indiscriminate murderer

3. butcher, slaughterernoun

   a person who slaughters or dresses meat for market

4. bungler, blunderer, fumbler, bumbler, stumbler, sad sack, botcher, butcher, fuckupverb

   someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence

5. butcher, slaughterverb

   kill (animals) usually for food consumption

   "They slaughtered their only goat to survive the winter"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. butchernoun

   A person who prepares and sells meat (and sometimes also slaughters the animals).

2. butchernoun

   A brutal or indiscriminate killer.

   Weyler was referred to as a "Butcher" by yellow journalists.

3. butchernoun

   (Cockney rhyming slang, via butcher's hook) A look.

4. butchernoun

   A person who sells candy, drinks, etc. in theatres, trains, circuses , etc. (old, informal).

5. butcherverb

   To slaughter animals and prepare meat for market.

6. butcherverb

   To kill brutally.

7. butcherverb

   To ruin something, often to the point of defamation.

   The band at that bar really butchered "Hotel California".

8. Butchernoun

   for a butcher.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. BUTCHERnoun

   Etymology: boucher, Fr.

   1. One that kills animals to sell their flesh.

   The shepherd and the butcher both may look upon one sheep with pleasing conceits. Philip Sidney.

   Hence he learnt the butcher’s guile,
   How to cut your throat, and smile;
   Like a butcher doom’d for life,
   In his mouth to wear his knife. Jonathan Swift.

   2. One that is delighted with blood.

   Honour and renown are bestowed on conquerours, who, for the most part, are but the great butchers of mankind. John Locke.

2. To Butcherverb

   To kill; to murder.

   Etymology: from the noun.

   In suff’ring thus thy brother to be slaughter’d,
   Thou shewest the naked pathway to thy life,
   Teaching stern murder how to butcher thee. William Shakespeare, R. II.

   Uncharitably with me have you dealt,
   And shamefully by you my hopes are butcher’d. William Shakespeare.

   The poison and the dagger are at hand to butcher a hero, when the poet wants brains to save him. John Dryden, Don Sebast.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Butcher

   A butcher is a person who may slaughter animals, dress their flesh, sell their meat, or participate within any combination of these three tasks. They may prepare standard cuts of meat and poultry for sale in retail or wholesale food establishments. A butcher may be employed by supermarkets, grocery stores, butcher shops and fish markets, slaughter houses, or may be self-employed.Butchery is an ancient trade, whose duties may date back to the domestication of livestock; its practitioners formed guilds in England as far back as 1272. Since the 20th century, many countries and local jurisdictions offer trade certifications for butchers in order to ensure quality, safety, and health standards but not all butchers have formal certification or training. Trade qualification in English-speaking countries is often earned through an apprenticeship although some training organisations also certify their students. In Canada, once a butcher is trade qualified, they can learn to become a master butcher (Fleishmaster).Standards and practices of butchery differ between countries, regions and ethnic groups. Variation with respect to the types of animals that are butchered as well as the cuts and parts of the animal that are sold depends on the types of foods that are prepared by the butcher's customers.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. butcher

   A butcher is a person whose profession is cutting, processing, and selling meat from animals in a shop or market. In some instances, a butcher may also slaughter the animals. Butchers can specialize in different types of meat like beef, pork, chicken, or fish. They often prepare standard cuts of meat, poultry, or fish according to customer's requirements.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Butchernoun

   one who slaughters animals, or dresses their flesh for market; one whose occupation it is to kill animals for food

2. Butchernoun

   a slaughterer; one who kills in large numbers, or with unusual cruelty; one who causes needless loss of life, as in battle

3. Butcherverb

   to kill or slaughter (animals) for food, or for market; as, to butcher hogs

4. Butcherverb

   to murder, or kill, especially in an unusually bloody or barbarous manner

WikidataRate this definition:3.0 / 1 vote

1. Butcher

   A butcher is a person who may slaughter animals, dress their flesh, sell their meat or do any combination of these three tasks. They may prepare standard cuts of meat, poultry, fish, and shellfish for sale in retail or wholesale food establishments. A butcher may be employed by supermarkets, grocery stores, butcher shops and fish markets or may be self-employed. An ancient trade, whose duties may date back to the domestication of livestock, butchers formed guilds in England as far back as 1272. Today, many jurisdictions offer trade certifications for butchers. Some areas expect a three-year apprenticeship followed by the option of becoming a master butcher.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Butcher

   booch′ėr, n. one whose business is to slaughter animals for food: one who delights in bloody deeds.—v.t. to slaughter animals for food: to put to a bloody death, to kill cruelly: (fig.) to spoil anything, as a bad actor or the like.—ns. Butch′er-bird, a shrike; Butch′ering, Butch′ing, the act of killing for food, or cruelly.—adv. Butch′erly, butcher-like, cruel, murderous.—ns. Butch′er-meat, Butch′er's-meat, the flesh of animals slaughtered by butchers, as distinguished from fish, fowls, and game; Butch′er's-broom, a genus of plants of the lily order, the common one being an evergreen shrub, a bunch of which is used by butchers for sweeping their blocks; Butch′ery, great or cruel slaughter: a slaughter-house or shambles. [O. Fr. bochier, bouchier, one who kills he-goats—boc, a he-goat; allied to Eng. Buck.]

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. BUTCHER

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Butcher is ranked #1567 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Butcher surname appeared 22,978 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 8 would have the surname Butcher.
   
   84.6% or 19,439 total occurrences were White.
   9% or 2,077 total occurrences were Black.
   2.8% or 659 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   1.8% or 432 total occurrences were of two or more races.
   1.1% or 257 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
   0.4% or 113 total occurrences were Asian.

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How to pronounce Butcher?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

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   Fred

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   Tessa

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How to say Butcher in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Butcher in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Butcher in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of Butcher in a Sentence

1. Huntington Park Police Department:

   The suspect continued to threaten officers with the butcher knife, resulting in an officer-involved shooting.

2. Stella Kyriakides:

   We reject the logic of first come, first served, that may work at the neighborhood butcher's but not in contracts and not in our advanced purchase agreements.

3. Ambassador Dean:

   I honestly believe Phnom Penh residents did not do enough. There was something better that could have come out other than a genocide of 1.7 million people, now you must understand, I was born in Germany and suffered under Nazi oppression, so how could I turn over a people to the butcher ?

4. Iraj Harirchi:

   Qassem Soleimani said. That was under Irans Shiite shah, toppled in the 1979 revolution. But even after, Iran fought off other outbreaks, and its hospitals, doctors and nurses are known as some of the best in the wider Middle East, with a network of clinics from villages to big cities. However, the system appears to be stretching at the seams, with online videos purporting to show field hospitals going up. Meanwhile, Irans Shiite 80 million people, whose sense of high risk has been dulled by years of international isolation, crowd into grocery stores and butcher shops, suspicious of anything in the state media. Nowruz, the Persian New Year, looms on Friday, a holiday when millions travel. The government repeatedly has stopped short of ordering any major travel restrictions. It hasnt explained why, but there could be worry about further angering its people or slowing down its anemic, sanctions-hurt economy. Online videos show Iranians ignoring government demands to stay home and moving instead toward the coast of the Caspian Sea and the Persian Gulf. Residents of hard-hit Rasht, on Irans Shiite coast, have threatened to attack out-of-towners. We expect that, God willing, we can contain the rising trend of the disease, not the disease itself, by March 26, but I say this very frankly : if the great people dont cooperate, the disease will continue to be there until late May or even in June, and turn into a huge crisis. CLICK HERE FOR MORE CORONAVIRUS COVERAGE And the man who once called quarantines a thing of the past added :.

5. Pablo Rivero:

   Certainly the idea of ??the butcher shop is to give people a shade of Don Julio.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=Butcher
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Butcher
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=Butcher
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butcher
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Butcher
7. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=Butcher
8. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=Butcher
9. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html