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
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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