butcher

CEFRB1

/ˈbʊt͡ʃə/

noun · verb

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A person who prepares and sells meat.

  2. 02

    verb

    To kill or cut badly and without care.

Examples

  • That ugly butcher resembles that fictional monster.

  • The baker's is next door to the butcher's.

At a glance

Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
2
Citations
3
Synonyms
5

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. A brutal or indiscriminate killer.

  2. A person who prepares and sells meat (and sometimes also slaughters the animals).

  3. A person who sells candy, drinks, etc. in theatres, trains, circuses, etc.

More examples

In context

  • The butcher who sold me this beef is always friendly.

  • I am bad at pronouncing names, so my apologies if I butcher any of your names.

  • The band at that bar really butchered "Hotel California".

Synonyms

Quick test

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Question 1 · Quick check

The blank carefully cut the beef into steaks for the waiting customers.

Practise this properly in the app, where the word comes back before you forget it.

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Origin

noun

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