butchery

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The butchering of meat. countable,uncountable
    — (coordinate in precise usage referring to animal carcasses)
  2. The stereotypical behaviors and accoutrements of a butch lesbian. countable,slang,uncountable
  3. A butcher's shop; a meat market. countable,uncountable
  4. The cruel, ruthless killings of humans, as if at a slaughterhouse. countable,uncountable
    — The tyrannous and bloody act is done,— The most arch deed of piteous massacre That ever yet this land was guilty of. Dighton and Forrest, who I did suborn To do this piece of ruthless butchery
  5. An abattoir. countable,rare,uncountable
    — 1899 On the third Friday Jimmie was dropped at the door of the school from the doctor's buggy. The other children, notably those who had already passed over the mountain of distress, looked at him with glee, seeing in him another lamb brought to butchery. — Stephen Crane, Making an Orator.
  6. A disastrous effort, an atrocious failure. countable,uncountable
    — I often wondered how Walcott the director could stand listening to some of his marvelous words and phrases being subjected to verbal butchery as sometimes occurred when a player did not understand what he was speaking or reading.
  7. A disastrous effort, an atrocious failure.; Surgery that was botched or is asserted by the speaker to have been so. countable,uncountable

词形变化

butcheries plural butcheries plural

词源

词源 1
From Middle English bocherie, from Old French. See butcher for more.
词源 2
Etymology tree
English butch
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -ārius
Old French -ier
Proto-Indo-European *-yós
Proto-Italic *-ios
Old Latin -ios
Latin -ius
Latin -ia
Old French -ie
Old French -eriebor.
Middle English -erie
English -ery
English butchery
From butch + -ery.
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