butcher
Meaning of butcher
- a person whose trade is cutting up and selling meat in a shop.
- a person selling refreshments, newspapers, etc. on a train or in a theatre.
verb
slaughter or cut up (an animal) for food.
Middle English: from an Anglo-Norman French variant of Old French bochier, from boc ‘he-goat’, probably of the same ultimate origin as buck1.
adjective, comparative adjective- having an appearance or other qualities of a type traditionally seen as masculine.
a butch woman in a baseball cap
butch men and feisty women
there might be some butch firefighters on their way over!
mid 19th century: originally US dialect, short for butch knife, in the sense ‘a butcher's knife’; the current senses date from the mid 20th century.
Information about butcher
- The plural form of butcher is: butchers.
- Languages in which butcher is used:
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Hyphenation of butcher
butcher
- It consists of 1 syllables and 7 chars.
- butcher is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
butcher synonyms
Meaning meatman:
Meaning slaughterer:
Meaning bungler:
bungler, blunderer, fumbler, bumbler, stumbler, botcher, fuckup
Meaning slaughter:
Meaning a person employed to kill animals for food:
Meaning a butcher:
Meaning cut (the body of an animal) into joints for cooking:
Meaning make (something) ready for use or consideration:
Meaning put on one's clothes:
Meaning having or denoting those good qualities traditionally associated with men, such as courage, strength, and spirit:
Meaning having qualities or appearance traditionally associated with men:
Meaning having strength, energy, and a strong sex drive (typically used of a man):
Meaning engaging in daring and romantic adventures with bravado or flamboyance:
Meaning (of a woman) having an appearance and qualities that are typically associated with men and considered unbecoming in a woman:
Meaning resembling a human being:
Meaning not having or showing qualities traditionally associated with women:
Meaning not appropriate for or typical of a well-bred, decorous woman:
Meaning relating to or denoting the River Amazon or its surrounding region:
Meaning masculine in an overly assertive or aggressive way:
butcher antonyms
Meaning (of a man) having characteristics regarded as typical of a woman; unmanly:
Meaning having qualities or an appearance traditionally associated with women:
Translation of butcher
- German: Metzgerei, Fleischer, Metzger
- French: boucher
- Italian: macellaio
- Spanish: carnicero, carnicera
- Portuguese: talhante
Words that rhyme with butcher
Cher, cher, Blacher, Horlacher, Lutembacher, Merzbacher, Preacher, Schacher, Schleiermacher, Schumacher, Thacher, Treacher, acher, appeacher, approacher, attacher, beacher, bellyacher, bleacher, breacher, broacher, clairschacher, clairseacher, coacher, detacher, encroacher, headteacher, impeacher, leacher, logomacher, misteacher, nonteacher, overreacher, peacher, pleacher, poacher, preacher, reacher, reproacher, rondacher, schoolteacher, schwabacher, stacher, stomacher, teacher, treacher, underteacher, Baecher, Beecher, Brecher