butcher /bŭchˈər/

1. A person whose business is to slaughter animals for food, or who deals in their meat
2. A person who delights in bloody deeds
3. A vendor of sweets, newspapers, etc on a railway train (US)

1. To slaughter and prepare (animals) for sale as food
2. To put to a bloody death, kill cruelly
3. To spoil, botch

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

1. The trade of a butcher
2. Great or cruel slaughter
3. A slaughterhouse

butchˈerbird noun

1. A shrike
2. A bird of the genus Cracticus which impales its prey on thorns (Aust)

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

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