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butcher

/ˈbʊt͡ʃɚ/noun, verb2 syllables

Butcher means: someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence.

Synonyms for butcher16

noun, as in someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence

bungler, blunderer, fumbler, bumbler, stumbler, sad sack, botcher, fuckup

noun, as in a person who slaughters or dresses meat for market

slaughterer

verb, as in kill (animals) usually for food consumption

also used for butcher

kill, massacre, slay, murder, debase, bastardize

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What does butcher mean?5

noun

1

someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence

2

a person who slaughters or dresses meat for market

3

a retailer of meat

4

a brutal indiscriminate murderer

verb

1

kill (animals) usually for food consumption“They slaughtered their only goat to survive the winter”

Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Butcher in a sentence

  • When you see a butcher shop ahead of you, turn left.timoteojohano
  • Sami came out, wielding a large butcher knife.OsoHombre
  • When a cow was butchered, we had meat and beef fat.eeyinn
  • The butcher who sold me this beef is always friendly.CM
  • Please let me know if the butcher position is already filled.LeeSooHa
  • I asked the butcher to trim all the fat off of the meat.darinmex
  • The butcher shop sells assorted cuts of meat.Source_VOA
  • The bakery is located next to the butcher shop.belgavox

Sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR, credited to their authors.

Forms of butcher

as a noun

plural
butchers

as a verb

past tense
butchered
present participle
butchering
third-person singular
butchers
past participle
butchered