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butcher
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)
- A person who prepares and sells meat (and sometimes also slaughters the animals).
- (figuratively) A brutal or indiscriminate killer.
- (Cockney rhyming slang, from butcher's hook) A look.
- (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)
- (transitive) To slaughter (animals) and prepare (meat) for market.
- Synonyms: kill, slaughter
- (transitive) To kill brutally.
- Synonyms: massacre, slay
- (transitive) To ruin (something), often to the point of defamation.
- Synonym: murder
Translations
Etymology 2
butch +? -er
Adjective
butcher
- comparative form of butch: more butch
Anagrams
- Buchert
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grocer
English
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?????.s?/
- (General American) IPA(key): /???o?.s??/, /???o?.???/
- Rhymes: -??s?(?)
- Homophone: grosser
Noun
grocer (plural grocers)
- A person who retails groceries (foodstuffs and household items) from a grocery.
Derived terms
- greengrocer
- grocer's, grocer’s
- grocery
Translations
Verb
grocer (third-person singular simple present grocers, present participle grocering, simple past and past participle grocered)
- (uncommon) To sell groceries; to act as a grocer.
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