英语词汇“butcherly”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

butcher /bŭchˈər/

noun

A person whose business is to slaughter animals for food, or who deals in their meat

A person who delights in bloody deeds

A vendor of sweets, newspapers, etc on a railway train (US)

transitive verb

To slaughter and prepare (animals) for sale as food

To put to a bloody death, kill cruelly

To spoil, botch

ORIGIN: OFr bochier, bouchier a person who kills he-goats, from boc a he-goat; cf buck¹

butchˈering or butchˈing noun

(back-formation) the act of killing for food, or cruelly

butchˈerly adjective

Butcher-like, cruel, murderous (formerly also adverb)

butchˈer's (orig butcher's hook) noun (Cockney rhyming sl)

A look

butchˈery noun

butchˈerbird noun

butcher meat or butcher's meat noun

The flesh of animals slaughtered by butchers, as distinguished from fish, fowls and game

butcher's broom noun

An evergreen shrub (Ruscus aculeatus) with phyllodes, formerly used by butchers for sweeping their blocks