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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



... of a fortunate accident, I at last got the truth about Mr. Merrick. This event arose from the action of a right-minded butcher, who, having exhausted his stock of The Pigeon-Fancier's Gazette, sent me my weekly supply of dog-bones wrapped about ...
— A Chair on The Boulevard • Leonard Merrick
... eight of us in Shushan, and we are waiting till there are ten. Then we shall apply for a synagogue, and get leave from Calcutta. To-day we have no synagogue; and I, only I, am Priest and Butcher to our people. I am of the tribe of Judah—I think, but I am not sure. My father was of the tribe of Judah, and we wish much to get our synagogue. I shall be a priest of ...
— Life's Handicap • Rudyard Kipling
... luxury to have your own land, two hundred acres!—to live without the chandler, the butcher, the baker, the huxter, and the grocer! Tea, a little sugar and coffee, these are your ...
— Canada and the Canadians, Vol. 2 • Richard Henry Bonnycastle
... had to hold horses outside the theatre, and even then he had organized a little business group of horse holders called "Shakespeare's boys." He had the business sense, and he forced his way into the theatre and became a stockholder. Shakespeare was always an adventurer. He had to work in a butcher's shop, but before he was nineteen he was already married to a woman of twenty-six, and none too soon for ...
— The Best Short Stories of 1920 - and the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various
... was being enacted in Cairo, similar scenes were taking place in those provinces whose governors had received stringent commands to butcher every remaining Mamluk in Egypt. THUs nearly all perished, and that famous corps ...
— History Of Egypt From 330 B.C. To The Present Time, Volume 12 (of 12) • S. Rappoport


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