| 单词 | butcher |
| 释义 | butcher n. & v. --n 1. a a person whose trade is dealing in meat. b a person who slaughters animals for food. 2. a person who kills or has people killed indiscriminately or brutally. --vtr. 1. slaughter or cut up (an animal) for food. 2. kill (people) wantonly or cruelly. 3. ruin (esp. a job or a musical composition) through incompetence. Phrases and idioms the butcher, the baker, the candlestick-maker people of all kinds or trades. butcher-bird a shrike of the genus Lanius, native to Australia and New Guinea, with a long hook-tipped bill for catching prey. butcher's rhymingsl. a look (short for butcher's hook). butcher's-broom a low spiny-leaved evergreen shrub, Ruscus aculeatus. butcher's meat slaughtered fresh meat excluding game, poultry, and bacon. Derivatives butcherly adv. Etymology: ME f. OF bo(u)chier f. boc BUCK(1) |
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