Definition of Butcher

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Butcher

One who slaughters animals, or dresses their flesh for market; one whose occupation it is to kill animals for food.

A slaughterer; one who kills in large numbers, or with unusual cruelty; one who causes needless loss of life, as in battle.

To kill or slaughter (animals) for food, or for market; as, to butcher hogs.

To murder, or kill, especially in an unusually bloody or barbarous manner.

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Butcher Quotations

What a kid I got, I told him about the birds and the bee and he told me about the butcher and my wife.
Rodney Dangerfield

If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver.
Lord Byron

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.
Adam Smith

Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there.
Emile M. Cioran

I'm always making Butcher Holler sound like the most backward part of the United States-and I think maybe it is.
Loretta Lynn

Asking a critic to name his favorite book is like asking a butcher to name his favorite pig.
John McCarthy

Initially with The Butcher Boy, there was this kid growing up in this strange, weird environment that I remember from when I was a kid. And Patrick's vision was so complete there.
Neil Jordan

The Butcher Boy is a very great novel indeed and a very important Irish novel. The ambiguity of that is, he's writing a book about an appalling situation and he does it in a hilarious way.
Stephen Rea

A dead cow or sheep lying in a pasture is recognized as carrion. The same sort of a carcass dressed and hung up in a butcher's stall passes as food.
John Harvey Kellogg

If we know anything about man, it's that he's not pacific. The temptation to butcher anyone considered undesirable seems to be a common temptation, not always resisted.
Larry McMurtry

Butcher Translations

butcher in Afrikaans is slag, slagter
butcher in Danish is slagter
butcher in Dutch is slachten, afslachten
butcher in Finnish is teurastaa
butcher in French is boucher, charcutier, abattre
butcher in German is Fleischer, Metzger, Metzger, Fleischer
butcher in Italian is macellaio, macellaio
butcher in Latin is iuguolo, macellarius, trucido
butcher in Norwegian is slakter
butcher in Spanish is carnicero

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