butcher
21butcher — A person who kills or slaughters animals to procure their meat. A person who buys the carcasses of animals that have been slaughtered (by a butcher) for meat, and cuts them up and retails them, without more, is neither a butcher nor engaged in… …
22butcher — 1. noun /ˈbʊtʃ.ə(ɹ),ˈbʊʧ.ɚ/ a) A person who prepares and sells meat (and sometimes also slaughters the animals). He looked in vain into the stalls for the butcher who had sold fresh meat twice a week, on market days... b) A brutal or …
23Butcher — This interesting surname is of French origin and is an occupational name for a butcher or slaughterer, an important occupation in medieval England. The derivation is from the Old French bouchier and the Middle English development bo(u)cher . The… …
24butcher — butch|er1 [ butʃər ] noun count * 1. ) someone whose job is to sell meat and sometimes also to kill animals for meat. The store they work in is called a butcher s shop. 2. ) someone who has killed someone, often a lot of people, in a cruel and… …
25butcher — 1 noun (C) 1 someone who owns or works in a shop that sells meat 2 the butcher s a shop where you can buy meat 3 someone who has killed a lot of people cruelly and unnecessarily 4 have/take a butcher s BrE slang to have a look at something 2 verb …
26butcher — 1. noun 1) a butcher s shop Syn: meat seller, meat vendor, meat trader 2) a Nazi butcher Syn: murderer, slaughterer, killer, assassin; literary slayer; dated cutthroat, homicide 2. verb 1) …
27butcher's — butchˈer s (orig butcher s hook) noun (Cockney rhyming sl) A look • • • Main Entry: ↑butcher …
28butcher — I. noun Etymology: Middle English bocher, from Anglo French, from buc he goat, probably of Celtic origin; akin to Middle Irish bocc he goat more at buck Date: 13th century 1. a. a person who slaughters animals or dresses their flesh b. a dealer… …
29butcher — butcherer, n. /booch euhr/, n. 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… …
30butcher's — noun a) A butchers shop Gorblimey, would you ’ave a butcher’s at the bristols on this bird in the currant bun! b) A look (short form of butchers hook) Syn: dekko …
