different between butcher vs botcher

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

botch +? -er

Noun

botcher (plural botchers)

1. (obsolete) A person who mends things, especially such a cobbler or tailor.
2. A clumsy or incompetent worker; a bungler.
   • 1874, The Quarterly Review (volume 137, page 388)

     Dilettanteism presupposes art as botchwork does handicraft; and the Dilettante holds the same relation to the artist that the botcher does to the craftsman.

3. A young salmon; a grilse.

Related terms

• botch

Translations

Anagrams

• tech bro