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butcheries

[booch-uh-ree]

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noun, plural -er·ies.

1.

a slaughterhouse.

2.

brutal or wanton slaughter of animals or humans; carnage.

3.

the trade or business of a butcher.

4.

the act of bungling or botching.

Origin:
1300–50; Middle English bocherie < Anglo-French, Middle French boucherie. See butcher, -y³

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butchery

mid-15c., bocherie, from O.Fr. bocherie, from bochier (see butcher).

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