butcher

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Occupations, Foodbutcherbutch‧er1 /ˈbʊtʃə $ -ər/ S3 noun 1 Image of butcher

BODF[countable] someone who owns or works in a shop that sells meat2 → the butcher’s3 KILL[countable] someone who has killed someone else cruelly and unnecessarily, especially someone who has killed a lot of people4 → have/take a butcher’sExamples from the Corpusbutcher• He had been hired by a butcher in the Shambles.• Also patron of artists, butchers, glassworkers, notaries, painters, and surgeons.• And in Butcher Row there were 29 butchers, including a Master Butcher who features in the books.• He had a couple of hundred dollars on top of the dashboard, folded in butcher wrap stained with lamb-chop blood.• Many small independent butchers are closing down.• Therefore, we recommend having the butcher debone them whenever possible.• The butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker. Related topics: Food, Agriculturebutcherbutcher2 verb [transitive] 1 DFTAto kill animals and prepare them to be used as meat2 KILLto kill someone cruelly or unnecessarily, especially to kill a lot of people3 informalSPOIL to spoil something by working carelessly That hairdresser really butchered my hair!→ See Verb tableExamples from the Corpusbutcher• Catholics, he preached, trained blind and furious zealots to butcher and scalp Protestants.• They decided Mr Newall was butchered downstairs and his wife in her bedroom.• The scent of dense green growth, irrigation mist, massive trees not butchered for their fodder, fattened, passive cattle.• Memories of the 1983 riots, when thousands of Tamils were butchered in Colombo, are lively.• Loi butchered it eagerly, first cutting off inch-thick steaks which we fried in soy sauce and oil and were delicious.• And who did butcher those women?Origin butcher1 (1200-1300) Old French bouchier, from bouc “male goat”

单词	butcher
释义	butcher From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Occupations, Foodbutcherbutch‧er1 /ˈbʊtʃə $ -ər/ ●●○ S3 noun 1BODF[countable] someone who owns or works in a shop that sells meat2 → the butcher’s3 KILL[countable] someone who has killed someone else cruelly and unnecessarily, especially someone who has killed a lot of people4 → have/take a butcher’sExamples from the Corpusbutcher• He had been hired by a butcher in the Shambles.• Also patron of artists, butchers, glassworkers, notaries, painters, and surgeons.• And in Butcher Row there were 29 butchers, including a Master Butcher who features in the books.• He had a couple of hundred dollars on top of the dashboard, folded in butcher wrap stained with lamb-chop blood.• Many small independent butchers are closing down.• Therefore, we recommend having the butcher debone them whenever possible.• The butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker. Related topics: Food, Agriculturebutcherbutcher2 verb [transitive] 1 DFTAto kill animals and prepare them to be used as meat2 KILLto kill someone cruelly or unnecessarily, especially to kill a lot of people3 informalSPOIL to spoil something by working carelessly That hairdresser really butchered my hair!→ See Verb tableExamples from the Corpusbutcher• Catholics, he preached, trained blind and furious zealots to butcher and scalp Protestants.• They decided Mr Newall was butchered downstairs and his wife in her bedroom.• The scent of dense green growth, irrigation mist, massive trees not butchered for their fodder, fattened, passive cattle.• Memories of the 1983 riots, when thousands of Tamils were butchered in Colombo, are lively.• Loi butchered it eagerly, first cutting off inch-thick steaks which we fried in soy sauce and oil and were delicious.• And who did butcher those women?Origin butcher1 (1200-1300) Old French bouchier, from bouc “male goat”
随便看	matter-of-fact tone matter-of-fact voice matter-of-fact voice/tone matter/point/question of honour Matterhorn Matterhorn, the matteroffact matteroffact tone matteroffact voice matters matters of state matters of substance matters/affairs of state matters/issues of substance Matthew Matthew Matthew, Saint Matthews Matthews, Sir Stanley mattia matting mattins mattock mattress maturation