butcher

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈbʊt͡ʃə/|/ˈbɵt͡ʃə/    美 /ˈbʊt͡ʃə/|/ˈbʊt͡ʃɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A person who prepares and sells meat (and sometimes also slaughters the animals).
    — He looked in vain into the stalls for the butcher who had sold fresh meat twice a week, on market days...
  2. A brutal or indiscriminate killer. figuratively
    — Butcher of an innocent child.
  3. A look. Cockney,slang
  4. A person who sells candy, drinks, etc. in theatres, trains, circuses, etc. informal,obsolete
  5. A king playing card. archaic,colloquial
动词 v.
  1. To slaughter (animals) and prepare (meat) for market. transitive
  2. To work as a butcher. intransitive
    — He tells me he now earns three times as much as he did butchering.
  3. To kill brutally. transitive
  4. To ruin (something), often to the point of defamation. transitive
    — The band at that bar really butchered "Hotel California".
  5. To mess up hopelessly; to botch; to distort beyond recognition. transitive
    — I am bad at pronouncing names, so my apologies if I butcher any of your names.
形容词 adj.
  1. comparative form of butch: more butch comparative,form-of
    — Weaver and Shaw dance together and almost immediately another butch, an even butcher butch (Leslie Feinberg), cuts in to dance with Shaw (though Shaw would kill me if she heard me call someone a butcher butch).

词形变化

butchers plural butchers present,singular,third-person butchering participle,present butchered participle,past butchered past

词汇关系

近义词
flesher slayer
衍生词
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词源

词源 1
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.
词源 2
Etymology tree
English butch
English -er
English butcher
From butch + -er.
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