butcher

Meanings

Noun

• A person who prepares and sells meat (and sometimes also slaughters the animals).
• A brutal or indiscriminate killer.
• A look.
• A person who sells candy, drinks, etc. in theatres, trains, circuses, etc.

Verb

• To slaughter (animals) and prepare (meat) for market.
• To kill brutally.
• To ruin (something), often to the point of defamation.

Adjective

• Comparative form or more of butch

Related

Similar words

• carnager
• flesher 1
• mayhemist
• slayer 2

Origin

• From Middle English buccher, bucher, boucher, bocher, from Anglo-Norman boucher, Old French bouchier, from Old French bouc, from Medieval Latin buccus, of Germanic origin. More at English buck.
• butch + -er