BUTCHER

bungler, blunderer, fumbler, bumbler, stumbler, sad sack, botcher, butcher, fuckup

(noun) someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence

butcher, slaughterer

(noun) a person who slaughters or dresses meat for market

butcher

(noun) a brutal indiscriminate murderer

butcher, meatman

(noun) a retailer of meat

butcher, slaughter

(verb) kill (animals) usually for food consumption; “They slaughtered their only goat to survive the winter”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Proper noun

Butcher

An occupational surname for a butcher.

Anagrams

• Buchert

Etymology 1

Noun

butcher (plural butchers)

A person who prepares and sells meat (and sometimes also slaughters the animals).

(figurative) A brutal or indiscriminate killer.

(Cockney rhyming slang, from butcher's hook) A look.

(informal, obsolete) A person who sells candy, drinks, etc. in theatres, trains, circuses, etc.

Synonyms

• carnager

• flesher 1

• mayhemist

• slayer 2

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

(transitive) To kill brutally.

Synonyms: massacre, slay

(transitive) To ruin (something), often to the point of defamation.

Synonym: murder

Etymology 2

Adjective

butcher

comparative form of butch

Anagrams

• Buchert

Source: Wiktionary

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Butch"er, n. Etym: [OE. bochere, bochier, OF. bochier, F. boucher, orig., slaughterer of buck goats, fr. OF. boc, F. bouc, a buck goat; of German or Celtic origin. See Buck the animal.]

1. One who slaughters animals, or dresses their flesh for market; one whose occupation it is to kill animals for food.

2. A slaughterer; one who kills in large numbers, or with unusual cruelty; one who causes needless loss of life, as in battle. "Butcher of an innocent child." Shak. Butcher bird (Zoöl.), a species of shrike of the genus Lanius.

Note: The Lanius excubitor is the common butcher bird of Europe. In England, the bearded tit is sometimes called the lesser butcher bird. The American species are L.borealis, or northernbutcher bird, and L. Ludovicianus or loggerhead shrike. The name butcher birdis derived from its habit of suspending its prey impaled upon thorns, after killing it. Butcher's meat, such flesh of animals slaughtered for food as is sold for that purpose by butchers, as beef, mutton, lamb, and pork.

Butch"er, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Butchered (; p. pr. & vb.n. Butchering.]

1. To kill or slaughter (animals) for food, or for market; as, to butcher hogs.

2. To murder, or kill, especially in an unusually bloody or barbarous manner. Macaulay. [Ithocles] was murdered, rather butchered. Ford.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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