different between abattoir vs butchery

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)

1. A public slaughterhouse for cattle, sheep, etc. [Early 19^th century.]

2. 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)

1. abattoir, slaughterhouse

Synonyms

• slachthuis, slachterij

French

Etymology

abattre +? -oir

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.ba.twa?/

Noun

abattoir m (plural abattoirs)

1. 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)

1. (concerning France) an abattoir (a public slaughterhouse for cattle, sheep, etc.)

   Synonyms: slaktehus, slakteri

References

• “abattoir” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Middle English bocherie, from Old French. See butcher for more.

Noun

butchery (countable and uncountable, plural butcheries)

1. The cruel, ruthless killings of humans, as at a slaughterhouse.
   • 1593, Shakespeare, Richard III, Act 4, Scene 3.

     The tyrannous and bloody act is done,—

     The most arch deed of piteous massacre

     That ever yet this land was guilty of.

     Dighton and Forrest, who I did suborn

     To do this piece of ruthless butchery

2. (rare) An abattoir, a slaughterhouse.
   • 1899 On the third Friday Jimmie was dropped at the door of the school from the doctor's buggy. The other children, notably those who had already passed over the mountain of distress, looked at him with glee, seeing in him another lamb brought to butchery. — Stephen Crane, Making an Orator.
   • 1901 There was good grass on the selection all the year. I’d picked up a small lot—about twenty head—of half-starved steers for next to nothing, and turned them on the run; they came on wonderfully, and my brother-in-law (Mary’s sister’s husband), who was running a butchery at Gulgong, gave me a good price for them. — Henry Lawson, A Double Buggy at Lahey Creek.
3. The butchering of meat.
   • This butchery begins in the first Japanese month. For this purpose they put the animal's head between two long poles, which are squeezed together by fifty or sixty people, both men and women. When the bear is dead they eat his flesh, keep the liver as a medicine — James Frazer, The Golden Bough, Chapter 52.
4. A disastrous effort, an atrocious failure.

   This week’s impossible-to-pronounce word: Catania. Granted, it’s a little trickier than Palermo, but there was no excusing the verbal butchery that ensued. —blog.

5. A meat market

Translations

Etymology 2

butch +? -ery

Noun

butchery (countable and uncountable, plural butcheries)

1. (slang) The stereotypical behaviors and accoutrements of being a butch lesbian.