butcher

== English == === Pronunciation === (UK, General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈbʊt͡ʃ.ə/ (US, Canada) IPA(key): /ˈbʊt͡ʃ.ɚ/ Rhymes: -ʊtʃə(ɹ) === Etymology 1 === From Middle English bocher, boucher, from Old French bouchier (“goat slaughterer”), from Old French bouc (“goat”), from Medieval Latin buccus (“he-goat”), from Frankish *bukk, from Proto-Germanic *bukkaz (“male goat, male deer”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuǵ- (“buck, ram”). See also English buck. ==== Noun ==== butcher (plural butchers) A person who prepares and sells meat (and sometimes also slaughters the animals). (figurative) A brutal or indiscriminate killer. Synonyms: carnager, mayhemist (Cockney rhyming slang, from butcher's hook) A look. (informal, obsolete) A person who sells candy, drinks, etc. in theatres, trains, circuses, etc. (colloquial, archaic, card games) A king playing card. Coordinate term: bitch ===== Synonyms ===== ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Descendants ===== → Hindi: बूचड़ (būcaṛ) → Swahili: bucha → Urdu: بُوچَڑ (būcaṛ) ===== Translations ===== ==== Verb ==== butcher (third-person singular simple present butchers, present participle butchering, simple past and past participle butchered) (transitive) To slaughter (animals) and prepare (meat) for market. Synonyms: kill, slaughter (intransitive) To work as a butcher. (transitive) To kill brutally. Synonyms: massacre, slay (transitive) To ruin (something), often to the point of defamation. Synonym: murder (transitive) To mess up hopelessly; to botch; to distort beyond recognition. Synonyms: debase, bastardize ===== Translations ===== ==== References ==== (king playing card): 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary === Etymology 2 === From butch +‎ -er. ==== Adjective ==== butcher comparative form of butch: more butch === Anagrams === Buchert