Butcher
['bʊtʃə] or ['bʊtʃɚ]
Definition
(noun.) a person who slaughters or dresses meat for market.
(noun.) a brutal indiscriminate murderer.
(noun.) a retailer of meat.
(verb.) kill (animals) usually for food consumption; 'They slaughtered their only goat to survive the winter'.
Edited by Emily--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) One who slaughters animals, or dresses their flesh for market; one whose occupation it is to kill animals for food.
(n.) A slaughterer; one who kills in large numbers, or with unusual cruelty; one who causes needless loss of life, as in battle.
(v. t.) To kill or slaughter (animals) for food, or for market; as, to butcher hogs.
(v. t.) To murder, or kill, especially in an unusually bloody or barbarous manner.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Slayer, killer, murderer, slaughterer, assassin, cut-throat.
v. a. Kill, MURDER, slay, slaughter, massacre, ASSASSINATE, despatch, put to death.
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Definition
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.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To see them slaughtering cattle and much blood, you may expect long and fatal sickness in your family. To see a butcher cutting meat, your character will be dissected by society to your detriment. Beware of writing letters or documents.
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Examples
- The same quantity of butcher's meat would still come to market. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- But then I am an imaginative man; and the butcher, the baker, and the tax-gatherer, are not the only credible realities in existence to my mind. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- She denounced the war as wholesale murder, and Lord Wellington as a hired butcher. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Not in a dishonourable way, Wegg, because you was singing to the butcher; and you wouldn't sing secrets to a butcher in the street, you know. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The butcher and the porkman painted up, only the leanest scrags of meat; the baker, the coarsest of meagre loaves. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- But the relative values of those two different species of food, bread and butcher's meat, are very different in the different periods of agriculture. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- To which, the butcher's boy: who appeared of a lounging, not to say indolent disposition: replied, that he thought not. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Then it rolled among the women and stopped beside the half-butchered thing they were preparing to feast upon. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- I say come, Amelia, the civilian went on; never mind what she says; why are we to stop here and be butchered by the Frenchmen? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Butchered to make a Roman holyday has grown monotonous to me. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Beef cattle were driven with the trains, and butchered as wanted. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- We have been talking with unseemly zeal about bloody battles and butchering generals; we arrive now at a triumph in your line. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Grocery goods, for example, are generally much cheaper; bread and butchers' meat frequently as cheap. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- What I have said as to the temporary preservation of fish by fishmongers applies equally to the preservation of meat and fowls by butchers and poulterers. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- How came those stinking butchers' candles in your room? Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- The doctors were working with their sleeves up to their shoulders and were red as butchers. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- I am attended by a select body of our boys; the butcher, by two other butchers, a young publican, and a sweep. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- In all towns-corporate, all persons are free to sell butchers' meat upon any lawful day of the week. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The prices of bread and butchers' meat are generally the same, or very nearly the same, through the greater part of the united kingdom. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
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