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noun
The butchering of meat.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A butcher's shop; a meat market.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: butcher shop, butcher's
Antonyms: none provided
noun
The cruel, ruthless killings of humans, as if at a slaughterhouse.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: slaughter, slaughtering
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: manslaughter, killing
noun
An abattoir.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, rare, uncountable
Synonyms: slaughterhouse, slaughtery
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A disastrous effort, an atrocious failure.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A disastrous effort, an atrocious failure.
Surgery that was botched or is asserted by the speaker to have been so.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
The stereotypical behaviors and accoutrements of a butch lesbian.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, slang, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
the savage and excessive killing of many people
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: slaughter, massacre, mass murder, carnage
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: murder, slaying, execution
Narrower terms: bloodbath, bloodletting, bloodshed, battue, Alamo, Little Bighorn, Battle of Little Bighorn, Battle of the Little Bighorn, Custer's Last Stand
noun
the business of a butcher
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: butchering
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: commercial enterprise, business enterprise, business
noun
a building where animals are butchered
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: abattoir, shambles, slaughterhouse
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: building, edifice
History
From Middle English bocherie, from Old French. See butcher for more.
Etymology tree English butch Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -ārius Old French -ier Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós Proto-Italic *-ijos Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -ia Old French -ie Old French -eriebor. Middle English -erie English -ery English butchery From butch + -ery.
Across languages
12 source translations are retained for this English entry.
