butcher (redirected from taking a butcher's)

butch·er  (bchr)

n.

1.

a. One who slaughters and dresses animals for food or market.

b. One who sells meats.

2. One that kills brutally or indiscriminately.

3. A vendor, especially one on a train or in a theater.

4. One who bungles something.

tr.v. butch·ered, butch·er·ing, butch·ers

1. To slaughter or prepare (animals) for market.

2. To kill brutally or indiscriminately.

3. To botch; bungle: butcher a project; butchered the language.

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[Middle English bucher, from Old French bouchier, from bouc, boc, he-goat, probably of Celtic origin.]

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butcher·er n.

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butcher

Noun

1. a person who sells meat

2. a person who kills animals for meat

3. a brutal murderer

Verb

1. to kill and prepare (animals) for meat

2. to kill (people) at random or brutally

3. to make a mess of; botch [Old French bouchier]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	butcher - a retailer of meat                   meatman merchandiser, merchant - a businessperson engaged in retail trade pork butcher - a vendor of pork and products made from pork
	2.	butcher - a brutal indiscriminate murderer liquidator, manslayer, murderer - a criminal who commits homicide (who performs the unlawful premeditated killing of another human being)
	3.	butcher - a person who slaughters or dresses meat for market slaughterer knacker - someone who buys up old horses for slaughter skilled worker, skilled workman, trained worker - a worker who has acquired special skills
	4.	butcher - someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence blunderer, botcher, bumbler, bungler, fuckup, fumbler, sad sack, stumbler incompetent, incompetent person - someone who is not competent to take effective action
Verb	1.	butcher - kill (animals) usually for food consumption; "They slaughtered their only goat to survive the winter" slaughter chine - cut through the backbone of an animal kill - cause to die; put to death, usually intentionally or knowingly; "This man killed several people when he tried to rob a bank"; "The farmer killed a pig for the holidays"

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butcher

noun 1. murderer, killer, slaughterer, slayer, destroyer, liquidator, executioner, cut-throat, exterminator

verb 2. slaughter, prepare, carve, cut up, dress, cut, clean, joint

verb 3. kill, slaughter, massacre, destroy, cut down, assassinate, slay, liquidate, exterminate, put to the sword

verb 4. mess up, destroy, ruin, wreck, spoil, mutilate, botch, bodge (informal)

Translations

butcher [ˈbutʃəʳ] n → carnicero/a

vt → hacer una carnicería con [+ cattle etc for meat]; matar;

butcher's (shop) → carnicería

butcher [ˈbutʃəʳ] n → boucher m

vt → massacrer [+ cattle etc for meat]; tuer

butcher [ˈbutʃəʳ] n → Fleischer m, Metzger m;

(pej) (murderer) → Schlächter m

vt → schlachten;

(prisoners etc) → abschlachten

butcher [ˈbutʃəʳ] n → macellaio

vt → macellare;

butcher's (shop) → macelleria

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butcher

n butcher [ˈbutʃə]

a person whose business is to kill cattle etc for food and/or sell their flesh. slagter لَحّام، قَصّاب касапин řezník slagter der Fleischer, der Metzger χασάπης carnicero lihunik, lihamüüja قصاب teurastaja, lihakauppias boucher/-ère קָצַב कसाई, बूचड़ mesar hentes, mészáros penjagal slátrari macellaio 肉屋 푸줏간 주인 mėsininkas, skerdėjas miesnieks penjual daging slager slakter rzeźnik homem do talho măcelar мясник mäsiar, -ka mesar mesar slaktare คนชำแหละเนื้อสัตว์ kasap 屠夫 м'ясник قصائی ، قصاب người hàng thịt 屠夫

v

1 to kill for food. slag يَذْبَحُ заколвам porážet (dobytek) slagte schlachten σφάζω για το κρέας matar tapma ذبح کردن teurastaa abattre לִשְחוֹט खाने के लिए मारना klati (le)mészárol menyembelih slátra macellare 屠殺する 도살하다 skersti kaut (lopus) menyembelih slachten slakte szlachtować, zarzynać abater a tăia забивать, резать zabiť (dobytok) klati klati slakta ฆ่าสัตว์ขาย (hayvan) kesmek 屠宰 забивати خوراک کے لئے ہلاک کرنا ، ذبح کرنا giết mổ 屠宰

2 to kill cruelly All the prisoners were butchered by the dictator. wreedaardig vermoor يَقْتُلُ بِوَحْشِيَّه убивам жестоко povraždit, zavraždit slagte abschlachten δολοφονώ, σφάζω masacrar elajalikult tapma قتل عام کردن؛ بی رحمانه کشتن lahdata massacrer לִטְבּוֹח निर्दयता से वध करना masakrirati leöl membantai slátra; strádrepa fare strage di 虐殺する 학살하다 nužudyti, išskersti slepkavot dibunuh dengan kejam afslachten slakte (ned) zarzynać massacrar a masacra безжалостно убивать povraždiť (po)klati poklati slakta ฆ่าอย่างโหดเหี้ยม katliam yapmak, kan dökmek 殘殺 убивати безжалісно بے رحمی سے ہلاک کرنا tàn sát 残杀