different between butcher vs barber

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?b?t?.?(?)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?b?t??.?/
• Rhymes: -?t??(?)

Etymology 1

From Middle English buccher, bucher, boucher, bocher, from Anglo-Norman boucher, Old French bouchier (“goat slaughterer”), from Old French bouc (“goat”), from Medieval Latin buccus (“he-goat”), of Germanic origin. More at English buck.

Noun

butcher (plural butchers)

1. A person who prepares and sells meat (and sometimes also slaughters the animals).
2. (figuratively) A brutal or indiscriminate killer.
3. (Cockney rhyming slang, from butcher's hook) A look.
4. (informal, obsolete) A person who sells candy, drinks, etc. in theatres, trains, circuses, etc.

Synonyms

• carnager
• flesher 1
• mayhemist
• slayer 2

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Hindi: ????? (b?ca?)
• ? Urdu: ????? (b?ca?)

Translations

Verb

butcher (third-person singular simple present butchers, present participle butchering, simple past and past participle butchered)

1. (transitive) To slaughter (animals) and prepare (meat) for market.

   Synonyms: kill, slaughter

2. (transitive) To kill brutally.

   Synonyms: massacre, slay

3. (transitive) To ruin (something), often to the point of defamation.

   Synonym: murder

Translations

Etymology 2

butch +? -er

Adjective

butcher

1. comparative form of butch: more butch

Anagrams

• Buchert

English

Etymology

From Middle English barbour, from Anglo-Norman barbour, from Old French barbeor, from barbe (“beard”), from Latin barba.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?b??.b?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?b??.b?/
• Rhymes: -??(?)b?(?)

Noun

barber (plural barbers)

1. A person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards.
2. A barber surgeon, a foot soldier specializing in treating battlefield injuries.
3. (Canada) A storm accompanied by driving ice spicules formed from sea water, especially one occurring on the Gulf of St. Lawrence; so named from the cutting ice spicules.

Synonyms

• haircutter
• hairdresser
• hairstylist

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

barber (third-person singular simple present barbers, present participle barbering, simple past and past participle barbered)

1. To cut the hair or beard of (a person).
2. (US, slang) To chatter, talk.
   • 1940, Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely, Penguin 2010, p. 29:

     ‘I shouldn't ought to barber with you. But when I like a guy, the ceiling's the limit.’

Translations

Anagrams

• Barbre

Catalan

Etymology

From barba +? -er.

Noun

barber m (plural barbers, feminine barbera)

1. barber

Further reading

• “barber” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

French

Etymology

From barbe +? -er; compare with familiar sense of raser which was its original meaning in Old French.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba?.be/

Verb

barber

1. (familiar) to bore someone
   • Le fait est qu'il ne perd aucune occasion de nous barber avec ses expériences dramatiques. (Claudel, Le Ravissement de Scapin, 1952)

Conjugation

Derived terms

• barbant

References

• “barber” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Further reading

• “barber” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Indonesian

Etymology

From English barber, Anglo-Norman barbour, from Old French barbeor, from barbe (“beard”), from Latin barba.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?bar.b?r]
• Hyphenation: bar?bêr

Noun

barber

1. (colloquial) barber a person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards.

   Synonyms: tukang cukur, pemangkas rambut

Alternative forms

• barbir

Further reading

• “barber” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

barber

1. imperative of barbere