Butcher

Definition: Butcher

Butcher

Noun

1. A retailer of meat.

2. A brutal indiscriminate murderer.

3. A person who slaughters or dresses meat for market.

4. Someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence.

Verb

1. Kill; used of animals, but also used for people to indicate brutality.

Date "butcher" was first used: 13th century. (references)

Domain	Definition
Dream Interpretation	To see them slaughtering cattle and much blood, you may expect long and fatal sickness in your family. To see a butcher cutting meat, your character will be dissected by society to your detriment. Beware of writing letters or documents. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted ....
Literature	Butcher The Butcher. Achmed Pasha was called djezzar (the butcher), and is said to have whipped off the heads of his seven wives. He is famous for his defence of Acre against Napoleon I. The Butcher. John, ninth lord Clifford, also called The Black, died 1461. The Bloody Butcher. The Duke of Cumberland, second son of George II. So called from his barbarities in suppressing the rebellion of the young Pretender. The Royalist Butcher. Blaise de Montluc, distinguished for his cruelties to the Protestants in the reign of Charles IX. of France (1502-1572). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
Occupations	Cuts, trims, bones, ties, and grinds meats, using butcher's cutlery and powered equipment, such as electric grinder and bandsaw, to portion and prepare meat in cooking form: Cuts, trims, and bones carcass sections or prime cuts, using knives, meat saw, cleaver, and bandsaw, to reduce to cooking cuts, such as roasts, steaks, chops, stew cubes, and grinding meat. Cuts and weighs steaks and chops for individual servings. Tends electric grinder to grind meat. Shapes and ties roasts. May estimate requirements and requisition or order meat supply. May receive, inspect, and store meat upon delivery. May record quantity of meat received and issued to cooks. May clean fowl and fish [BUTCHER, CHICKEN AND FISH (hotel & rest.)]. May oversee other butchers and be designated Butcher, Head (hotel & rest.). (references)
	Cuts and trims meat to size for display or as ordered by customer, using handtools and power equipment, such as grinder, cubing machine, and power saw. Cleans and cuts fish and poultry. May shape, lace, and tie meat cuts by hand, using boning knife, skewer, and twine to form roasts. May place meat in containers to be wrapped by other workers. May place meat on trays in display counter. May clean work area. May unload meat from delivery truck and store meat into refrigerator. May wrap and weigh meat for customers and collect money for sales. May inspect and grade meats and be designated Meat Inspector (retail trade; wholesale tr.). (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Butcher

Synonyms: blunderer (n), botcher (n), bumbler (n), bungler (n), fuckup (n), fumbler (n), meatman (n), sad sack (n), slaughterer (n), stumbler (n), slaughter (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Evil doer	Wild beast, tiger, hyena, butcher, hangman; blood-hound, hell-hound, sleuth-hound; catamount, cougar, jaguar, puma.
Killing	Verb: kill, put to death, slay, shed blood; murder, assassinate, butcher, slaughter, victimize, immolate; massacre; take away life, deprive of life; make away with, put an end to; despatch, dispatch; burke, settle, do for.
	Butcher, slayer, murderer, Cain, assassin, terrorist, cutthroat, garroter, bravo, Thug, Moloch, matador, sabreur; guet-a-pens; gallows, executioner. (punishment); man-eater, apache, hatchet man, highbinder.
Mart	Grocery, supermarket, candy store, sweet shop, confectionery, bakery, greengrocer, delicatessen, bakeshop, butcher shop, fish store, farmers' market, mom and pop store, dairy, health food store.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Look what you've done, you not only made a butcher out of me but you drove my girl away (The Little Shop of Horrors; writing credit: Charles B. Griffith) She was so funny, she ran off with this big, fat butcher. (The Killing of a Chinese Bookie; writing credit: John Cassavetes)
Lyrics	I never thought of ever leaving Butcher Holler (Coal Miner's Daughter; performing artist: Loretta Lynn) In a cabin on a hill in Butcher Holler (Coal Miner's Daughter; performing artist: Loretta Lynn) The butcher, the banker, the drummer and then ("Everyday People"; performing artist: Sly & The Family Stone)
Movie/TV Titles	The Butcher of Seville (1944) Fun in a Butcher Shop (1901) Beauty Queen Butcher (1991) Lupo the Butcher (1987) Hong Kong Butcher (1985)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Butcher, Baker: A True Account of a Serial Murderer (reference) Clyde Butcher, Portfolio I: Florida Landscapes (reference) In the Wake of the Butcher : Cleveland's Torso Murders (reference) The Butcher Boy (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Zombie Holocaust Dr. Butcher M.D. (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Mad Butcher [EP] (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Consumer Goods	Krups 402-70 The Butcher Shop Meat Grinder (reference) American Tack 151DBB Butcher Block Duplex Wallplate (reference) (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	There is a butcher block cutting board on a white tablecloth. On the table are peapods, purple cabbage, cherry tomatoes, watercress, carrots, cauliflower and radishes. On the cutting board is a red pepper and an orange paring knife. In front of the board is a grey and white plaid napkin. See also AV-3905. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.		Butcher shop in Paris, France. Meat, food. Credit: CDC.
	Henry (Hank) Butcher. Credit: Library of Congress.		Brussels, Belgium, 1940-44(?)--People lining up at a butcher shop for their rations of one ounce of meat (beef, horse, dog, cat or tripe) which they get about once a week. Credit: Library of Congress.
	St. Bon Ossko, butcher shop, Herzegovina. Credit: Library of Congress.		Butcher at the commissary. Mogollon, New Mexico. Credit: Library of Congress.
	Primitive painting over refrigerator in butcher shop, New Iberia, Louisiana. Credit: Library of Congress.		The butcher, Chinatown, San Francisco. Credit: Library of Congress.
	Elinor Merrell, business at 18 E. 69th St., New York City. Butcher block. Credit: Library of Congress.		Butcher shop, (J.S. Yonai), Manzanar Relocation Center / photograph by Ansel Adams. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Title	Author	Quote
Hunting of the Snark	Carroll, Lewis	Yet still, ever after that sorrowful day, Whenever the Butcher was by, The Beaver kept looking the opposite way, And appeared unaccountably shy.
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	It is a distribution made by the butcher, who kills what he divides
Time Enough for Love	Robert Heinlein	A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	France	Traditional outlets include a broad array of establishments from corner grocery stores, bakeshops, and neighborhood butcher shops, to open air markets, to frozen and gourmet food stores. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Butcher" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 65.71% of the time. "Butcher" is used about 801 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	65.71%	526	11,625
Noun (proper)	33.17%	266	18,071
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	0.62%	5	157,705
Lexical Verb (base form)	0.37%	3	202,518
Unclassified Items	0.12%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	801	N/A

The following table summarizes the usage of "butcher" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.

Name	Usage/Gender	Usage per 100 million Persons	Rank in USA
Butcher	Last name	8,000	1,546
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

Expressions using "butcher": butcher bird ♦ butcher birds ♦ butcher block ♦ butcher board ♦ butcher boy ♦ butcher Cumberland ♦ butcher knife ♦ butcher paper ♦ butcher shop ♦ lesser butcher bird ♦ news butcher ♦ northern butcher bird ♦ pork butcher. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "butcher": butcher-bird, butcher-block, butcher-in, butcher-like, butcher-shop.
	Ending with "butcher": ex-butcher, pig-butcher, pork-butcher.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "butcher"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaans		slagter, slag (blow, slaughter). (various references)

Albanian		mishshitës. (various references)

Arabic		‏قتل (assassinate, assassination, bag, croak, death, despatch, dispatch, do in, end, finish, fire, homicide, immolate, kill, killing, knock off, lay out, manslaughter, murder, poleaxe, procure, put down, put to death, shoot, slay, take for a ride), ‏قصاب (knacker, meatman, pacesetter), ‏سفك الدم ظلما, ‏زبح, ‏ذبح الحيوانات, ‏السفاك (assassin, thug), ‏الذباح, ‏الجزار. (various references)

Asturian		carniceru. (various references)

Aymara		mañaso. (various references)

Bemba		shimabuca. (various references)

Blackfoot		innootaa. (various references)

Bulgarian		убивам жестоко, убиец (assassinator, cutthroat, homicide, killer, murderer, slaughterer), коля (kill, massacre, murder, slaughter, stick), касапин (slaughterer), главорез (cutthroat, gorilla, ruffian, thug), месар, заколвам (jugulate), палач (executioner, hangman, headsman, jack ketch, torturer). (various references)

Cebuano		matansero. (various references)

Chamorro		mataderu. (various references)

Chinese		宰殺 (slaughter), 宰 (govern, official, rule, slaughter), � 户, � 夫 . (various references)

Cornish		kyger. (various references)

Czech		prznit, porazit (bear down, beat, best, chop down, conquer, cut down, defeat, fell, hack down, hew, hew down, kill, knock down, overthrow, overturn, run down, smite, stick, strike down, stump, tumble, vanquish), masakrovat (massacre, slaughter), kazit (blight, corrupt, debauch, impair, Mar), hrdlořez (cutthroat, hoodlum, thug), řezník. (various references)

Danish		slagter. (various references)

Dutch		slager, slachter, slachten (slaughter), afslachten (massacre, slaughter). (various references)

Ecuadorian Quechua		aichacatuc. (various references)

Esperanto		buĉisto, buĉi (slaughter). (various references)

Faeroese		slaktari, slakta (slaughter), fletta (skin, slaughter), drepa (dip, immerse, kill, liquidate, slaughter, slay, soak). (various references)

Farsi		کشتن (Administer, Amortize, Dispatch, Doin, Extinguish, Mortify, Murder, Out, Rat, Smite), قصابی کردن , قصاب , ادم خونریز. (various references)

Finnish		teurastaja (knacker). (various references)

French		boucher (bung), abattre. (various references)

Frisian		slachter. (various references)

German		fleischer (sawbones), metzger (butchers), schlachter, schlachten (battles, kill, killing, slaughter), schlächter (butcherer, slaughterer). (various references)

Greek		σφάζω (kill, massacre, slaughter, slay). (various references)

Hawaiian		mishshitës. (various references)

Hebrew		לשחוט (slaughter), לטבוח (massacre, slaughter), קצב. (various references)

Hungarian		mészáros (meatman, sawbones, slaughterer), hentes (sticker). (various references)

Indonesian		bantai (beat up severely), pembantai, memotong (deduct, dissect, dock, hamstring, intersect, lop, prune), membunuh (assassinate, delete, erase, kill, murder, plug, put out, slay), jagal. (various references)

Inuktitut		aaktuiji. (various references)

Irish		búistéir. (various references)

Italian		macellaio. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		肉屋　, 肉屋 , 殺 (diminish, kill, murder, reduce, slice off, split, spoil). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		さつ (counter for books, diminish, kill, murder, note, paper money, police, reduce, remain, slice off, split, spoil, stay, temple, volume), にくや. (various references)

Kongo		fulu kia nsumbila mbizi (butcher shop). (various references)

Korean		푸줏간 주인. (various references)

Macedonian		mesar. (various references)

Manx		traartyssey (desolate, desolating, massacre), marroo (aground; deceased estate, assassinate, bag game; dead, bag; dead, deceased, defunct, departed, dispatch, dud, dull, dull of pain, exterminate, extinct; extermination, flat, flat mood, flat spot, glassy, glassy as look, inanimate, kill, kill off, killed, killing, lifeless, liquidate, liquidation, mortified, muggy, murder, slaughter, slaughtered, slaughtering, slay, slaying, sleeping, stagnant), feilleyder, buitchoor (slaughterer, slaughterman). (various references)

Maori		putia (butcher shop). (various references)

Maya		kiinsah. (various references)

Norwegian		slakter. (various references)

Papiamen		slakter. (various references)

Pig Latin		utcherbay.(various references)

Polish		rzeźnik. (various references)

Portuguese		açougueiro, carniceiro (slaughterous), matador (matador, thug). (various references)

Provencal		maselièra, maselièr. (various references)

Romanian		ucide (assassinate, croak, destroy, execute, kill, murder, poison, slaughter, slay, smother, spoil, strangle, suffocate), tãia (amputate, ax, axe, cancel, carve, carve out, castrate, chop, clap, cleave, clip, crop, cross, Curdle, cut, cut on the bias, Dent, dissect, engrave, excise, exscind, fell, flench, foul, grave, hew, incise, intercept, kill, measure off, notch, notch off, pare, plough, prune, quarter, resect, rip, Rive, separate, sever, shear, shorten, shut the works down, slaughter, slay, slice, snick, split, Square, stop, strike out, switch off), omorî (annihilate, assassinate, bring down, bump, croak, destroy, dispatch, do for, do in, execute, exhaust, finish, kill, knock off, make an end of, make away with, murder, put smb. on the spot, put to death, send to glory, shift, slaughter, slay, spoil, torment, torture), masacra (massacre, murder, mutilate, slaughter, spoil), måcelar, mãcelar (pigsticker), mãcelãri (massacre, slaughter), lucrãtor prost (bungler, duffer, pedlar), casap, cãsãpi (slaughter, slay), cãlãu (executioner, hangman, headsman, jack ketch, tyrant). (various references)

Romansch		batger. (various references)

Ruanda		uwu gurisha inyama. (various references)

Russian		мясник (meatman, slaughterer). (various references)

Samoan		tagata fasimanu. (various references)

Sepedi		radinama. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		mesar (meatman), krvnik, kasapin (meatman, slaughterer), iskasapiti. (various references)

Shona		korera (butcher bird). (various references)

Sicilian		vucceri. (various references)

Spanish		carnicero, matar (carry off, cut down, destroy, dispose of, do in, homicide, kill, knock off, lay, liquidate, murder, postmark, pot, shoot, slaughter, slay, swat). (various references)

Sranan		sraktiman, srakti (slaughter). (various references)

Swahili		mchinjaji. (various references)

Swazi		lí-siláha (butcher shop). (various references)

Swedish		slaktare (cullender, killer, slaughterer). (various references)

Turkish		kasap (killer, slaughterer, sticker). (various references)

Turkmen		gassap. (various references)

Ukrainian		рознощик (badger, cadger, conveyer, conveyor, packman, peddler, pedlar), торговець м'ясом, катувати (martyrize, torment, torture), кат (cat, executioner, hanger, hangman, headman), м'ясник (slaughterer), зіпсувати (blunder, injure, ravage), забивати (choke, kill, knock in, ram, slaughter). (various references)

Vietnamese		thịt bò, người h� ng thịt, hoa quả, đ�" tễ kẻ hung bạo. (various references)

Welsh		cigyddio (slaughter), cigydd. (various references)

Zulu		ubhusha. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Sumerian	3100 BCE-2500 BCE	�um, ukur. (various references)
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	carnificem, iugulabant, iugulantur, iugulare, iugulati, iugulatum, iugulaverunt, iugulavit, iugulemur, iuguolo, macellarius, trucidabant, trucidabunt, trucidati, trucidavit, trucident, trucido. (various references)
Old French	900-1400	bouchier. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "butcher": butchered, butcheries, butchering, butcherly, butchers, butchery. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Butcher" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: batchler, Betcher, Bhuchar, bitchen, blutcher, botcha, Boutcher, Brutscher, bucher, buchet, Buchez, Buchler, Buechner, buncher, Bunchrew, burcher, Buscher, Butchart, butche, Buthe, butke, Butko, dutcher, Eutyche, futcher, Multscher, Zurcher. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "b-c-e-h-r-t-u"
	-1 letter: cherub.
	-2 letters: berth, brute, buret, butch, chert, chute, cruet, cuber, curet, cuter, eruct, rebut, recut, retch, ruche, teuch, truce, tuber.
	-3 letters: beth, bhut, brut, buhr, bute, chub, cube, curb, cure, curt, cute, ecru, etch, herb, hurt, rube, ruth, thru, true, tube.
	-4 letters: bet, bur, but, cub, cue, cur, cut, ecu, eth, her, het, hub.
	Words containing the letters "b-c-e-h-r-t-u"
	+1 letter: butchers, butchery.
	+2 letters: butchered, butcherly, trebuchet.
	+3 letters: butcheries, butchering, eurybathic, subchapter, superbitch, thumbscrew, trebuchets.
	+4 letters: breechclout, subchapters, thumbscrews, thumbsucker.
	+5 letters: breechclouts, butterscotch, nightclubber, superbitches, thumbsuckers, turbocharged, turbocharger, uncharitable.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
butcher block	453	butcher spam	20
butcher	277	butcher block top	18
butcher block table	126	butcher block oil	16
butcher shop	80	butcher block kitchen island	16
butcher block counter top	71	jim butcher	16
abdullah butcher	64	butcher henry	15
butcher knife	48	butcher meat	15
the butcher boy	46	butcher chicken	15
butcher paper	46	antique butcher block	14
butcher block island	46	butcher company	14
butcher supply	43	butcher pig	13
butcher block countertops	39	butcher block cart	12
butcher broom	37	susan butcher	12
butcher clyde	29	the butcher online	12
butcher wax	27	butcher block kitchen table	11
butcher mp3	27	butcher holler	11
eastern butcher block	25	butcher lisa	11
sam the butcher	25	candy butcher	11
butcher block counter	25	butcher equipment	11
the butcher bill	21	beef butcher	11
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Butcher

Definition: Butcher

Butcher

Noun

Verb

Specialty Definition: Butcher

Synonyms: Butcher

Synonyms within Context: Butcher

Evil doer

Killing

Mart

Crosswords: Butcher

Modern Usage: Butcher

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Commercial Usage: Butcher

Books

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Use in Literature: Butcher

Hunting of the Snark

Carroll, Lewis

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

Time Enough for Love

Robert Heinlein

Non-Fiction Usage: Butcher

Usage Frequency: Butcher

Name Usage Frequency: Butcher

Expressions: Butcher

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Butcher

Modern Translation: Butcher

Afrikaans

Albanian

Arabic

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Aymara

Bemba

Blackfoot

Bulgarian

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Chinese

Cornish

Czech

Danish

Dutch

Ecuadorian Quechua

Esperanto

Faeroese

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Hawaiian

Hebrew

Hungarian

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Inuktitut

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Italian

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Kongo

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Maori

Maya

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