butcher

adj

Etymology: Etymology tree English butch English -er English butcher From butch + -er.

1. comparative form of butch: more butch

   “Weaver and Shaw dance together and almost immediately another butch, an even butcher butch (Leslie Feinberg), cuts in to dance with Shaw (though Shaw would kill me if she heard me call someone a butcher butch).”

name

1. A surname originating as an occupation for a butcher.

noun

Etymology: From Middle English bocher, boucher, from Old French bouchier (“goat slaughterer”), from Old French bouc (“goat”), from Medieval Latin buccus (“he-goat”), from Frankish *bukk, from Proto-Germanic *bukkaz (“male goat, male deer”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuǵ- (“buck, ram”). See also English buck.

1. A person who prepares and sells meat (and sometimes also slaughters the animals).

   “He looked in vain into the stalls for the butcher who had sold fresh meat twice a week, on market days...”

2. A brutal or indiscriminate killer.

   “Butcher of an innocent child.”

3. A look.
4. A person who sells candy, drinks, etc. in theatres, trains, circuses, etc.
5. A king playing card.

verb

Etymology: From Middle English bocher, boucher, from Old French bouchier (“goat slaughterer”), from Old French bouc (“goat”), from Medieval Latin buccus (“he-goat”), from Frankish *bukk, from Proto-Germanic *bukkaz (“male goat, male deer”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuǵ- (“buck, ram”). See also English buck.

1. To slaughter (animals) and prepare (meat) for market.
2. To work as a butcher.

   “He tells me he now earns three times as much as he did butchering.”

3. To kill brutally.
4. To ruin (something), often to the point of defamation.

   “The band at that bar really butchered "Hotel California".”

5. To mess up hopelessly; to botch; to distort beyond recognition.

   “I am bad at pronouncing names, so my apologies if I butcher any of your names.”