Butcher - English meaning

ˈbʊtʃ.ər

Butcher – definitions in English dictionary

noun
A person whose trade is cutting up and selling meat in a shop.
Usage examples:
Markets often have butchers or cooked meat shops that specialize in the head and trotters, that is,…
Synonims:
Meat seller Meat merchant Meat trader Slaughterer Slaughterman Flesher
noun
A person selling refreshments, newspapers, etc. on a train or in a theatre.

verb
Slaughter or cut up (an animal) for food.
Usage examples:
A ban on butchering downer cows - animals that stagger, can't walk, or exhibit other signs of bse-w…
Synonims:
Slaughter Cut up Carve up Slice up Joint Prepare Dress

adjective
Having an appearance or other qualities of a type traditionally seen as masculine.
Usage examples:
A butch woman in a baseball cap
Synonims:
Manly Masculine All man Virile Red-blooded Swashbuckling Mannish Manlike Unfeminine Unladylike Amazonian Macho Viraginous Viragoish

noun
A person whose job is to kill animals for meat or who prepares and sells meat in a store

noun
A person who sells meat in a shop

noun
A shop where butchers work

noun
Someone who murders a lot of people, especially in a cruel way

verb
To kill or cut up an animal for meat
Usage examples:
He raises pigs and butchers his own meat., this is where farmers brought their livestock to be butc…

verb
To kill people in a very violent way or in large numbers
Usage examples:
He butchered thousands of people., unarmed civilians are being butchered by the occupying forces.

verb
To spoil something completely by performing or dealing with it very badly
Usage examples:
He complained that tv screenwriters had butchered his story., i couldn't bear to hear our national …

Butcher translation into English

Butcher: translate from English into Chinese

屠夫, 屠宰, 屠户, 宰杀, 宰, 屠杀

Butcher: translate from English into Dutch

Slager, Afslachten, Slachter, Vleeshouwer, Verminken, Verknoeien

Butcher: translate from English into French

Boucher, Massacrer, Égorger, Abattre, Massacreur, Tuer, Assassin, Équarrisseur

Butcher: translate from English into German

Metzger, Schlachten, Fleischer, Abschlachten, Schlächter, Schlachter, Niedermetzeln, Niedermachen, Vergewaltigen

Butcher: translate from English into Hindi

कसाई, कसाई होना, क्रूर कातिल, हत्या करना, वध करना

Butcher: translate from English into Italian

Macellaio, Macellare, Sgozzare

Butcher: translate from English into Korean

푸줏간, 푸주한, 판매원, 잡다, 도살하다

Butcher: translate from English into Russian

Мясник, Палач, Убийца, Безжалостно убивать, Разносчик в поезде, Искусственная муха, Забивать скот, Бить, Искажать, Портить

Butcher: translate from English into Spanish

Carnicero, Verdugo, Sanguinario, Matar, Destrozar a

Word origin

mid 19th century: originally US dialect, short for butch knife, in the sense ‘a butcher's knife’; the current senses date from the mid 20th century.

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Butcher – similar words

butchered

verb
Slaughter or cut up (an animal) for food.
Usage examples:
A ban on butchering downer cows - animals that stagger, can't walk, or exhibit other signs of bse-w…

noun
A person whose trade is cutting up and selling meat in a shop.
Usage examples:
Markets often have butchers or cooked meat shops that specialize in the head and trotters, that is,…

noun
A person selling refreshments, newspapers, etc. on a train or in a theatre.

Butchered - all meanings in English

Butcher synonims

amazonian

adjective
Relating to or denoting the river amazon or its surrounding region.
Usage examples:
The amazonian rainforest

adjective
(of a woman) tall and strong or athletic.
Usage examples:
Amazonian supermodels

adjective
(of a woman) tall, strong, or forceful
Usage examples:
A tall, broad-shouldered, amazonian woman towered above us., in her pictures, she is the embodiment…

Amazonian - all meanings in English

dress

verb
Put on one's clothes.
Usage examples:
Graham showered and dressed quickly

noun
A one-piece garment worn by women and girls that covers the body and extends down over the legs.
Usage examples:
A white cotton dress

verb
Put on clothes

Dress - all meanings in English

flesher

noun
A butcher.
Usage examples:
The council had enacted that the fleshers could not slaughter their beasts outside their booths bec…

Flesher - all meanings in English

joint

noun
A point at which parts of an artificial structure are joined.
Usage examples:
Seal the joint between the roof and the house wall

adjective
Shared, held, or made by two or more people together.
Usage examples:
A joint statement

verb
Provide or fasten (something) with joints.
Usage examples:
Other dolls, lily and jane, made in germany, had jointed arms and legs, eyelashes, eyes that opened…

Joint - all meanings in English

macho

adjective
Masculine in an overly assertive or aggressive way.
Usage examples:
The big macho tough guy

noun
A man who is aggressively proud of his masculinity.
Usage examples:
I realized just what a macho i was at heart

noun
A relatively dark, dense object, such as a brown dwarf, a low-mass star, or a black hole, of a kind believed to occur in a halo around a galaxy and to contain a significant proportion of the galaxy's mass.

Macho - all meanings in English

manlike

adjective
Resembling a human being.
Usage examples:
A manlike creature

Manlike - all meanings in English

manly

adjective
Having or denoting those good qualities traditionally associated with men, such as courage, strength, and spirit.
Usage examples:
A manly torso of perfect proportions

adjective
Having qualities such as strength and bravery that people think a man should have
Usage examples:
The boy was told that it wasn’t manly to cry.

Manly - all meanings in English

mannish

adjective
(of a woman) having an appearance and qualities that are typically associated with men and considered unbecoming in a woman.
Usage examples:
A mannish, sadistic matron

adjective
(of a woman) having characteristics typical of a man

Mannish - all meanings in English

masculine

adjective
Having qualities or appearance traditionally associated with men.
Usage examples:
He is outstandingly handsome and robust, very masculine

noun
The male sex or gender.
Usage examples:
The dance presents the world of the masculine, its raw energy

adjective
Having qualities traditionally considered to be suitable for a man
Usage examples:
It was a movie likely to appeal to a masculine audience., boys need to see a wide range of masculin…

Masculine - all meanings in English

prepare

verb
Make (something) ready for use or consideration.
Usage examples:
Prepare a brief summary of the article

verb
Make ready or suitable or equip in advance

verb
To make or get something or someone ready for something that will happen in the future
Usage examples:
[ t ] keane is preparing a film version of the play., [ i ] the southeast prepared for the worst as…

Prepare - all meanings in English

red-blooded

adjective
Used to describe someone who seems full of confidence or sexual energy
Usage examples:
He says he's a red-blooded american male!

Red-blooded - all meanings in English

slaughter

verb
Kill (animals) for food.
Usage examples:
At present the abattoir is slaughtering animals for the domestic market

noun
The killing of animals for food.
Usage examples:
Thousands of calves were exported to the continent for slaughter

noun
The killing of animals for their meat, or the killing of large numbers of animals in a cruel manner
Usage examples:
We must find ways of reducing the slaughter on the highways (= deaths of many people in car acciden…

Slaughter - all meanings in English

slaughterman

noun
A person employed to kill animals for food.
Usage examples:
His dad was a butcher and slaughterman who was often out of work in the depression, and times were …

Slaughterman - all meanings in English

swashbuckling

adjective
Engaging in daring and romantic adventures with bravado or flamboyance.
Usage examples:
A crew of swashbuckling buccaneers

noun
Daring and romantic adventure.
Usage examples:
The film is heavy on the swashbuckling and high-seas adventure

verb
Engage in daring and romantic adventures with bravado or flamboyance.
Usage examples:
This guy can swashbuckle and hold his own

Swashbuckling - all meanings in English

unfeminine

adjective
Not having or showing qualities traditionally associated with women.
Usage examples:
People thought it unfeminine for women not to look forward to marriage as the sole hope and purpose…

adjective
Having characteristics that are not traditionally thought to be typical of or suitable for a woman
Usage examples:
I think many women are afraid of appearing unfeminine., i'm not interested in the opinions of men w…

Unfeminine - all meanings in English

unladylike

adjective
Not appropriate for or typical of a well-bred, decorous woman.
Usage examples:
Sharon gave an unladylike snort

adjective
Not graceful or polite, or not behaving in a way that is thought to be socially acceptable for a woman
Usage examples:
She was sweating in a most unladylike manner.

Unladylike - all meanings in English

virile

adjective
Having strength, energy, and a strong sex drive (typically used of a man).
Usage examples:
He was a powerful, virile man

Virile - all meanings in English

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