different between carnage vs butchery

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French carnage , from a Norman or Picard variant Old Northern French) of Old French charnage, from char (“flesh”), or from Vulgar Latin *carnaticum (“slaughter of animals”), itself from Latin carnem, accusative of caro (“flesh”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?k??.n?d?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?k??.n?d?/

Noun

carnage (usually uncountable, plural carnages)

1. Death and destruction.

   Synonyms: massacre, bloodbath

2. The corpses, gore, etc. that remain after a massacre.
3. (figuratively, sports) Any great loss by a team; a game in which one team wins overwhelmingly.
4. (figuratively, slang) Any chaotic situation.

Synonyms

• insurrectionism

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References

Anagrams

• cranage

French

Etymology

From Middle French carnage, itself probably from a Norman or Picard (Old Northern French) variant of Old French charnage, itself from char (see also chair (“flesh”)), or from a Medieval Latin carnaticum (“slaughter of animals”), from Latin car?, carnem. See also Old Occitan carnatge, Italian carnaggio.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka?.na?/

Noun

carnage m (plural carnages)

1. carnage (all senses)

Further reading

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

Middle French

Etymology

Probably from a Norman or Picard (Old Northern French) variant of Old French charnage, itself from char (“flesh”), or from a Medieval Latin carnaticum (“slaughter of animals”), from Latin car?, carnem.

Noun

carnage m (plural carnages)

1. a piece of meat used as bait

Descendants

• ? English: carnage
• French: carnage

References

• charnage on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)

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.