butcher

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butcher

A butcher cuts fresh meat at the market counter.

Definition

  1. Noun:

    • A person whose trade is slaughtering animals and preparing and selling meat: A butcher is someone who works in a shop or market, cutting and selling meat to customers.
    • A person who kills brutally or indiscriminately: This figurative use describes someone who causes violent, excessive, or clumsy death and destruction.
    • Someone who performs a task very badly or incompetently: This informal, figurative sense refers to a person who ruins something through lack of skill.

  2. Verb:

    • To slaughter and prepare (an animal) for meat: The core action of a butcher's trade.
    • To kill (people or animals) brutally or indiscriminately: To slaughter in a violent, often senseless, manner.
    • To ruin or spoil something through incompetence or carelessness: To perform a task (like acting, repairing, or creating) very poorly, damaging the original.
Examples of Usage

  • Noun:

    • I bought some steaks from the local butcher.
    • The dictator was condemned as a butcher for the atrocities committed.
    • That hairdresser is a butcher; look what he did to my hair!

  • Verb:

    • The farmer butchered the pig for the festival.
    • The soldiers were accused of butchering innocent civilians.
    • He completely butchered the guitar solo during the concert.
Advanced Usage
  • "The butcher, the baker, the candlestick-maker": A traditional phrase listing common tradespeople, often used to refer to ordinary people in a community.
  • "Butcher's hook" (Cockney rhyming slang for "look"): "Take a butcher's at this!" means "Take a look at this!"
  • "Butcher paper": A sturdy, often white or brown, paper used for wrapping meat, but also for crafts and as a disposable table covering.
Variants and Related Words
  • Butchery (noun):
    • A slaughterhouse.
    • The trade of a butcher.
    • Savage, indiscriminate killing; carnage.
  • Butcherly (adjective): Resembling or characteristic of a butcher; savage.
  • Butcher block (noun): A heavy wooden tabletop or cutting board, originally used by butchers, now popular in kitchens.
Synonyms
  • Noun (trader): Meatman, meat cutter.
  • Noun (killer): Slaughterer, murderer, killer.
  • Verb (slaughter): Slaughter, slaughter.
  • Verb (ruin): Ruin, botch, bungle, massacre (informal), murder (informal).
Related Phrasal Verbs/Phrases
  • "Butcher up": This is not a standard phrasal verb. The verb "butcher" is typically used transitively (e.g., butcher something).
  • "To butcher one's way through something": To proceed in a violent, destructive, or very clumsy manner.
    • The inexperienced chef butchered his way through the recipe.
Related Idioms
  • "Have/take a butcher's": (UK, informal) To have a look. (From Cockney rhyming slang: butcher's hook = look).
    • Come and have a butcher's at this old photo I found.
  • "Like a butcher's dog": (UK, informal) Well-fed, especially on meat scraps. Often in the phrase "living like a butcher's dog."
  • "Butcher's bill": The list of casualties (killed and wounded) in a battle or disaster.
butcher

A butcher cuts fresh meat at the market counter.

Noun
  1. someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence
  2. a person who slaughters or dresses meat for market
  3. a brutal indiscriminate murderer
  4. a retailer of meat
Verb
  1. kill (animals) usually for food consumption
    • They slaughtered their only goat to survive the winter

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