butcher
/ˈbʊt͡ʃə/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.75 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A brutal or indiscriminate killer.
Example Sentences
- "He looked in vain into the stalls for the butcher who had sold fresh meat twice a week, on market days..."
- "Butcher of an innocent child."
- "He tells me he now earns three times as much as he did butchering."
- "The band at that bar really butchered "Hotel California"."
- "I am bad at pronouncing names, so my apologies if I butcher any of your names."
- "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)."
Etymology
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.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈbʊt͡ʃə/
- British English: /ˈbʊt͡ʃə/