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.

Checked by Archie

Synonyms and Synonymous

n. Slayer, killer, murderer, slaughterer, assassin, cut-throat.

v. a. Kill, MURDER, slay, slaughter, massacre, ASSASSINATE, despatch, put to death.

Typed by Agatha

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.

Checker: Victoria

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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