VERB | contact | butcher, slaughter | kill (animals) usually for food consumption |
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NOUN | person | butcher, meatman | a retailer of meat |
person | butcher | a brutal indiscriminate murderer | |
person | butcher, slaughterer | a person who slaughters or dresses meat for market | |
person | butcher, bungler, blunderer, fumbler, bumbler, stumbler, sad sack, botcher, fuckup | someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence |
Sounds | buh'cher | |
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Rhymes | acupuncture ... welcher: 102 rhymes with cher... |
Meaning | A retailer of meat. | |
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Synonym | meatman | |
Narrower | pork butcher | A vendor of pork and products made from pork |
Broader | merchant, merchandiser | A businessperson engaged in retail trade |
Spanish | carnicera, carnicero | |
Catalan | carnissera, carnisser | |
Verbs | butcher | kill (animals) usually for food consumption |
Meaning | A brutal indiscriminate murderer. | |
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Broader | murderer, liquidator, manslayer | A criminal who commits homicide (who performs the unlawful / unlawful / unlawful premeditated killing of another human being) |
Spanish | carnicero | |
Catalan | carnisser |
Meaning | A person who slaughters or dresses meat for market. | |
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Synonym | slaughterer | |
Narrower | knacker | someone who buys up old horses for slaughter |
Broader | skilled worker, trained worker, skilled workman | A worker who has acquired special skills |
Spanish | carnicero, jifero, matarife | |
Catalan | carnisser, degollador, escorxador, matancer | |
Verbs | butcher | kill (animals) usually for food consumption |
Meaning | someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence. | |
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Synonyms | bungler, blunderer, fumbler, bumbler, stumbler, sad sack, botcher, fuckup | |
Broader | incompetent, incompetent person | someone who is not competent to take effective action |
Spanish | chapucero, chapuzas, desatinado, frangollón, fumbler, incapaz, incompetente, inepto, manazas, negado, patoso, tapagujeros, topo, torpe, tropezador | |
Catalan | barroer, destraler, potiner | |
Adjectives | butcherly | poorly done |
Meaning | kill (animals) usually for food consumption. | |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody | |
Model | They want to butcher the prisoners | |
Synonym | slaughter | |
Entails | cut | separate with or as if with an instrument |
Narrower | chine | cut through the backbone of an animal |
Broader | kill | Cause to die |
Spanish | carnear, masacrar, matar, sacrificar | |
Nouns | butcher | a person who slaughters or dresses meat for market |
butcher | a retailer of meat | |
butchery | the business of a butcher | |
butchery | the savage and excessive killing of many people | |
butchery | a building where animals are butchered |
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