Definitions for Butcher

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Butcher butch·er

Spelling: [boo ch-er]

IPA: /ˈbʊtʃ ər/

Butcher is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 174 anagrams from letters in Butcher (bcehrtu).

Definitions for Butcher

noun

1. a retail or wholesale dealer in meat.
2. a person who slaughters certain animals, or who dresses the flesh of animals, fish, or poultry, for food or market.
3. a person guilty of brutal or indiscriminate slaughter or murder.
4. a vendor who hawks newspapers, candy, beverages, etc., as on a train, at a stadium, etc.
5. butch haircut.
6. Slang. a lesbian, especially one notably masculine in manner or appearance.

adjective

1. Slang. (of a girl or woman) having traits of personality, dress, behavior, or appearance usually associated with males. (of a male) decidedly or exaggeratedly masculine in manner or appearance.

verb (used with object)

1. to slaughter or dress (animals, fish, or poultry) for market.
2. to kill indiscriminately or brutally.
3. to bungle; botch:

Origin of Butcher

1250-1300; Middle English bocher Anglo-French; Old French bo(u)chier, equivalent to bo(u)c he-goat (Gaulish *bucco-; compare Old Irish boc, Welsh bwch; akin to buck

Examples for Butcher

One is against a gynecologist who lives comfortably in southern France, but is known in Rwanda as the “butcher of Tumba.”

My hands weighed two pounds each, and ought to have been at the butcher's.

It is meet that the same hand that slew my dear master should butcher me also!

"Good-night," he said, with an insolence far too fine for the butcher's comprehension.

But the butcher had a sentiment for his business, and knew how to refine upon it.

It is sold by the pound, cut to order, and presented not on a plate but on a sheet of butcher paper.

The retailer is the grocer, the butcher, or the green grocer.

One fateful night in 2009 a team of Navy SEALs grabbed the butcher of Fallujah—and then everything went wrong.

They could fix things and grow things and work with animals and do medical things and butcher pigs and put up preserves.

His family ran a butcher shop in a part of town so tough that their specialty was broken leg of lamb.