1. Kill (animals) usually for food consumption
   - slaughter

1. A retailer of meat
   - meatman 
2. A brutal indiscriminate murderer 
3. A person who slaughters or dresses meat for market
   - slaughterer 
4. Someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence
   - bungler, blunderer, fumbler, bumbler, stumbler, sad sack [N. Amer], botcher

1. Used of men; markedly masculine in appearance or manner
   - macho 
2. (of male or female homosexuals) characterized by stereotypically male traits or appearance

Derived forms: butchering, butchers, butchered

See also: butcherly, butchery, homosexual, masculine

Type of: incompetent, incompetent person, kill, liquidator, manslayer, merchandiser, merchant, murderer, skilled worker, skilled workman, trained worker

Encyclopedia: Butch

• family Portunidae
• family Potamogalidae
• family Potamogetonaceae
• family practice
• family Priacanthidae
• family Primulaceae
• family Pristidae
• family Procaviidae
• family Procellariidae
• family Procyonidae
• family Proteaceae
• family Proteidae
• family Prunellidae
• family Pseudococcidae
• family Pseudomonodaceae
• family Psilophytaceae
• family Psilotaceae
• family Psittacidae
• family Psocidae
• family Psophiidae
• family Psychodidae
• family Psyllidae
• family Pteridaceae
• family Pteriidae
• family Pteroclididae