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butch⋅er

  [booch-er]
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–noun
1. a retail or wholesale dealer in meat.
2. a person who slaughters certain animals, or who dresses the flesh of animals, fish, or poultry, for food or market.
3. a person guilty of brutal or indiscriminate slaughter or murder.
4. a vendor who hawks newspapers, candy, beverages, etc., as on a train, at a stadium, etc.
–verb (used with object)
5. to slaughter or dress (animals, fish, or poultry) for market.
6. to kill indiscriminately or brutally.
7. to bungle; botch: to butcher a job.
Origin:
1250–1300; ME bocher < AF; OF bo(u)chier, equiv. to bo(u)c he-goat (< Gaulish *bucco-; cf. OIr boc, Welsh bwch; akin to buck 1 ) + -ier -ier 2 (see -er 2 )

Related forms:
butch⋅er⋅er, noun

Synonyms:
3. killer, cutthroat. 5, 6. See slaughter.
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butch

  [booch]
–noun
1. butch haircut.
2. Slang. a lesbian, esp. one notably masculine in manner or appearance.
–adjective
3. Slang.
a. (of a girl or woman) having traits of personality, dress, behavior, or appearance usually associated with males.
b. (of a male) decidedly or exaggeratedly masculine in manner or appearance.
Origin:
1940–45; appar. from the proper name
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butch·er   (bŏŏch'ər)   
n.  

    1. One who slaughters and dresses animals for food or market.

    2. One who sells meats.

  2. One that kills brutally or indiscriminately.

  3. A vendor, especially one on a train or in a theater.

  4. One who bungles something.

tr.v.   butch·ered, butch·er·ing, butch·ers

  1. To slaughter or prepare (animals) for market.

  2. To kill brutally or indiscriminately.

  3. To botch; bungle: butcher a project; butchered the language.


[Middle English bucher, from Old French bouchier, from bouc, boc, he-goat, probably of Celtic origin.]
butch'er·er n.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Slang Dictionary
butch [bʊtʃ]

  1. n.
    a physician. (Derogatory. From butcher.) : The butch at the infirmary was no help at all.
  2. mod.
    virile and masculine. (In a homosexual context.) : Really, Clare. How butch!
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

butch 
"tough youth," 1902, first attested in nickname of outlaw George Cassidy, probably an abbreviation of butcher. Sense of "aggressive lesbian" is 1940s.

butcher 
c.1300, from Anglo-Norm. boucher, from O.Fr. bouchier "slaughterer of goats," from bouc "male goat," from Frank. *bukk (see buck). The verb is recorded from 1562. Figurative sense of "brutal murderer" is attested from 1529.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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