| 单词 | butcher |
| 释义 | butcher (once / 470 pages) 1nv 2n 3n The person whose job it is to cut up and sell meat is called a butcher. Your grandmother might go to the butcher once a week to buy pork chops. A butcher is an expert at preparing cuts of meat and poultry in a butcher shop or the meat section of a supermarket. You can also call a person whose job is slaughtering farm animals a butcher. Because this is a fairly bloody, gory occupation, the word is also used to mean a cruel, ruthless murderer. It comes from the Old French bochier, "butcher," or literally, "slaughterer of goats," from bouc, "male goat." WORD FAMILYbutcher: butchered, butchering, butcherly, butchers, butchery+/butchering: butcherings/butchery: butcheries USAGE EXAMPLESAny product with more than 8 percent foreign meat must say where the animal was born, raised and butchered. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) The German butcher at 86th and Second Avenue complained that pickle jars were falling off the shelves from the vibrations of the construction. Los Angeles Times(Jan 01, 2017) Once a butchers’ headquarters,the building is now home to bars and a few artisan shops. The Guardian(Dec 19, 2016) 1 1n a person who slaughters or dresses meat for market Syn|Hypo|Hyper slaughterer knacker someone who buys up old horses for slaughter skilled worker, skilled workman, trained worker a worker who has acquired special skills 2n a retailer of meat Syn|Hypo|Hyper meatman pork butcher a vendor of pork and products made from pork merchandiser, merchant a businessperson engaged in retail trade 3v kill (animals) usually for food consumption 2Syn|Hypo|Hyper slaughter chine cut through the backbone of an animal kill cause to die; put to death, usually intentionally or knowingly n someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence 3Syn|Hyper blunderer, botcher, bumbler, bungler, fumbler, sad sack, stumbler incompetent, incompetent person someone who is not competent to take effective action n a brutal indiscriminate murderer Hyper liquidator, manslayer, murderer a criminal who commits homicide (who performs the unlawful premeditated killing of another human being) |
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