butcher
Plural: butchers
Noun
- a retailer of meat
- a brutal indiscriminate murderer
- a person who slaughters or dresses meat for market
- someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence
- A person who prepares and sells meat (and sometimes also slaughters the animals).
- A brutal or indiscriminate killer.
- A look.
- A person who sells candy, drinks, etc. in theatres, trains, circuses, etc.
- A king playing card.
Verb
Verb Forms: butchered, butchering, butchers
- To slaughter an animal for meat, or to spoil something badly.
- kill (animals) usually for food consumption
- To slaughter (animals) and prepare (meat) for market.
- To work as a butcher.
- To kill brutally.
- To ruin (something), often to the point of defamation.
- To mess up hopelessly; to botch; to distort beyond recognition.
Adjective Satellite
- used of men; markedly masculine in appearance or manner
- (of male or female homosexuals) characterized by stereotypically male traits or appearance
Adj
- comparative form of butch: more butch
Examples
- A single misplaced tile can BUTCHER a perfectly good Scrabble game, ruining your score.
- I am bad at pronouncing names, so my apologies if I butcher any of your names.
- The band at that bar really butchered "Hotel California".
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English bocher, boucher, from Old French bouchier (“goat slaughterer”), from Old French bouc (“goat”), from Medieval Latin buccus (“he-goat”), of Germanic origin. More at English buck.
Synonyms
blunderer, botcher, bumbler, bungler, butch, fuckup, fumbler, macho, meatman, sad sack, slaughter, slaughterer, stumbler, bastardize, carnager, debase, flesher, kill, massacre, mayhemist, murder, slay, slayer
Scrabble Score: 14
butcher: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordbutcher: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
butcher: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary