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abattoir
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French abattoir, from abattre (“to slaughter”) (cognate to abate) + -oir (“-ory”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?æb.??tw??(?)/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?æb.??tw??/, /?æb.??tw?/
- Hyphenation: ab?at?toir
Noun
abattoir (plural abattoirs)
- A public slaughterhouse for cattle, sheep, etc. [Early 19th century.]
- A place or event likened to a slaughterhouse, because of great carnage or bloodshed.
Translations
See also
- knacker's yard
References
Anagrams
- Baraitot
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from French abattoir.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?a?.ba??t?a?r/
- Hyphenation: abat?toir
- Rhymes: -a?r
Noun
abattoir n (plural abattoirs, diminutive abattoirtje n)
- abattoir, slaughterhouse
Synonyms
- slachthuis, slachterij
French
Etymology
abattre +? -oir
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.ba.twa?/
Noun
abattoir m (plural abattoirs)
- slaughterhouse; abattoir
Descendants
- ? Dutch: abattoir
- ? English: abattoir
- ? Moore: batoaare
- ? Norwegian Bokmål: abattoir
Descendants
- Norwegian Bokmål: abattoir
Further reading
- “abattoir” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From French abattoir (“abattoir, slaughterhouse”), from both abattre (“to butcher; slaughter for meat”), from Middle French abattre, from Old French abatre (“to knock over, destroy, slaughter”), from Vulgar Latin *abbatere, present active infinitive of *abbat?, *abbatu? (“I beat down, cast down”), from Latin battu? (“I beat, hit, pound, beat up”), from Gaulish, from Proto-Indo-European *b?ed?- (“to stab, dig”) + and from -oir, from Latin -orium or -oria.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /abat????r/
- Rhymes: -??r
- Hyphenation: a?batt?oi?ar
Noun
abattoir n (definite singular abattoiret, indefinite plural abattoirer, definite plural abattoira or abattoirene)
- (concerning France) an abattoir (a public slaughterhouse for cattle, sheep, etc.)
- Synonyms: slaktehus, slakteri
References
- “abattoir” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
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butchers
English
Noun
butchers
- plural of butcher
Noun
butchers (plural butchers)
- Alternative form of butcher's (Cockney rhyming slang).
Verb
butchers
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of butcher
Anagrams
- Bucherts, Burtches, Schubert, chest rub, chubster
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