butchingn.
/ˈbʊtʃɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈbʊtʃɪŋ/ Chiefly regional and humorous.
= butchering n. (chiefly in sense 3).Recorded earliest in attributive use.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > preparation of meat > [noun] > butchery
butcheryc1449
fleshery1483
brittlingc1650
butching1688
butchering1860
1688 in M. Cash Devon Inventories 16th & 17th Cent. (1966) 149 One Butchinge Axe and other small Implements.
1787 R. Burns Death & Dr. Hornbook xiii, in Poems (new ed.) 59 Sax thousand years are near hand fled Sin' I was to the butching bred.
1830 J. Wilson Noctes Ambrosianae xlviii, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Apr. 683 Natural enough, surely, and likely to happen to a' men unaccustomed to see butchin'.
1867 Tinsley's Mag. Sept. 179/1 ‘Butching’ went on only once a week at Keswick; and the customers had to bespeak their joints before the beast was killed.
1901 Proc. Soc. Antiquaries Scotl. 35 72 (caption) Obsidian butching knife, from the Admiralty Islands.
1978 A. Fenton Northern Isles liv. 469 Killing or butchin' took place as a rule when the sheep were five or six years old.
1993 Independent (Nexis) 3 Apr. 14 Since football club directors were amateurs who knew about butching or baking but nothing about football, would it not be an idea if a man who knew his soccer took over?
2013 L. Cooper My Second Death xxvi. 277 One goes to one's butcher for one's butching needs.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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