butcher
noun
verb (used with object)
Origin of butcher
Synonyms for butcher
butch
noun
adjective
Origin of butch
Related Words for butcher
slaughter, mutilate, slayer, boner, skinner, processor, cut, clean, liquidate, salt, joint, cure, stick, smoke, carve, dress, destroy, wreck, spoil, botchExamples from the Web for butcher
Contemporary Examples of butcher
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.
It is sold by the pound, cut to order, and presented not on a plate but on a sheet of butcher paper.
One is against a gynecologist who lives comfortably in southern France, but is known in Rwanda as the “butcher of Tumba.”
One fateful night in 2009 a team of Navy SEALs grabbed the Butcher of Fallujah—and then everything went wrong.
Historical Examples of butcher
The retailer is the grocer, the butcher, or the green grocer.
Woman's Institute Library of Cookery, Vol. 5Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences
My hands weighed two pounds each, and ought to have been at the butcher's.
It Happened in EgyptC. N. Williamson
"Good-night," he said, with an insolence far too fine for the butcher's comprehension.
The Slave Of The LampHenry Seton Merriman
It is meet that the same hand that slew my dear master should butcher me also!
The Merry Adventures of Robin HoodHoward Pyle
But the butcher had a sentiment for his business, and knew how to refine upon it.
Life And Adventures Of Martin ChuzzlewitCharles Dickens