| 单词 | butcher |
| 释义 | butcher —butcherer, n. /booch"euhr/, n. 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. v.t. 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. [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 BUCK1) + -ier -IER2 (see -ER2)] Syn. 3. killer, cutthroat. 5, 6. See slaughter. |
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