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butcher

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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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