butcher

noun · verb · adjectiveB1

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Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

butchers

1.
A person who prepares and sells meat (and sometimes also slaughters the animals).
2.
(figuratively)(figurative) A brutal or indiscriminate killer.
Đồng nghĩa: mayhemist
3.
(Cockney, slang)(Cockney rhyming slang, from butcher's hook) A look.
4.
(informal, obsolete)A person who sells candy, drinks, etc. in theatres, trains, circuses, etc.
5.
(archaic, colloquial)(colloquial, archaic, card games) A king playing card.

Động từ

verb

V_es/s

butchers

V_ing/Gerund

butchering

V_ed/pp

butchered

1.
(transitive)To slaughter (animals) and prepare (meat) for market.
Đồng nghĩa: kill, slaughter
2.
(intransitive)To work as a butcher.
3.
(transitive)To kill brutally.
Đồng nghĩa: massacre, slay
4.
(transitive)To ruin (something), often to the point of defamation.
The band at that bar really butchered "Hotel California".
Đồng nghĩa: murder
5.
(transitive)To mess up hopelessly; to botch; to distort beyond recognition.
I am bad at pronouncing names, so my apologies if I butcher any of your names.
Đồng nghĩa: debase, bastardize

Tính từ

adjective

1.
(comparative, form of)comparative form of butch: more butch

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Nguồn gốc từ

ine bʰúǵs From Middle English bocher, boucher, from Old French bouchier (goat slaughterer), from Old French bouc (goat), from buccus (he-goat), from *bukk, from Proto-Germanic *bukkaz (male goat, male deer), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuǵ- (buck, ram). See also buck.