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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·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
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Word Origin & History

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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