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Butcher   /bˈʊtʃər/   Listen
Butcher

noun
1.
A retailer of meat.  Synonym: meatman.
2.
A brutal indiscriminate murderer.
3.
A person who slaughters or dresses meat for market.  Synonym: slaughterer.
4.
Someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence.  Synonyms: blunderer, botcher, bumbler, bungler, fuckup, fumbler, sad sack, stumbler.
verb
(past & past part. butchered; pres. part. butchering)
1.
Kill (animals) usually for food consumption.  Synonym: slaughter.



Butch

adjective
1.
Used of men; markedly masculine in appearance or manner.  Synonym: macho.
2.
(of male or female homosexuals) characterized by stereotypically male traits or appearance.



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"Butcher" Quotes from Famous Books



... necessary appendages, that an house is scarcely regarded as habitable without them. The table of a French gentleman is almost solely supplied from his land. Having a plenty of poultry, fish, and rabbits, he gives very little trouble to his butcher. Hence in many of the villages meat is not to be had, and even in large towns the supply bears a very small proportion to what would seem to be the ...
— Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Provinces of Provence and Languedoc in the Years 1807 and 1808 • Lt-Col. Pinkney

... him out to fight his last Armageddon and then have shot him on the lonely hills from which all other bulls had fled. These mean-souled, conscienceless moneymakers, who could not understand so brave, so fine a spirit, sold him to a Santa Rosa butcher! Shame on them, I say. I am sorry I ever revisited the Valley of the Seven Moons to hear such lamentable news. It made me unhappy then, makes me unhappy now. My only consolation is that once, and twice, and thrice, and yet again, I gave El Toro the chance of finding happiness in the conflict. ...
— A Tramp's Notebook • Morley Roberts

... : fasko. bungle : fusxi. burden : surpezi, sxargxo. bureau : oficejo, kontoro. burgess : burgxo. burn : brul'i, -igi. burrow : kavigi. burst : krevi. bury : enterigi, enfosi. business : afero, okupo, negoco busy : okupata, aferema. butcher : bucx'i, -isto. buttercup : ranunkolo, butterfly ...
— The Esperanto Teacher - A Simple Course for Non-Grammarians • Helen Fryer

... last few years I've been rather frequently constrained to accept the shadowy hospitality of his grace of Humphrey. 'Nante dinari, nante manjare,' as we say in the Classics, which I translate, 'No credit at the butcher's or the baker's.'" ...
— Henry Dunbar - A Novel • M. E. Braddon

... sighed. He was glad to see his wonderful offspring, but he had already put off the grocer and the butcher—and even his life-insurance premium—because he had an opportunity by a quick use of cash to obtain the bankrupt stock of a rival dealer who had not nursed his pennies as Pop had. It was by such purchases that Pop ...
— In a Little Town • Rupert Hughes


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