butcher boy
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.73 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
1
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A woodlouse, any of various terrestrial crustaceans of the suborder Oniscidea.
Example Sentences
- "Today I stood on a butcher boy. He died. I feel bad."
- "Common names for woodlice vary throughout the English-speaking world. They include roly-poly, pill bug (usually applied only to the genus Armadillidium), sow bug, […] butcher boy, daddy gramfer / daddy gampfer (West Country), Granny Grey (South Wales), cheesybug (Kent), and cheeselog."
- "Bob prick’d his lug and scratch’d his pate / For he was flushed with joy, / To think that he should be revenge’d / Upon the Butcher Boy."
- "He had clearly become a satyr once again, as evidenced by the rosy-faced butcher-boy that Moore met upon visiting him. The word butcher-boy was, like telegraph-boy, a euphemism for a male prostitute"
- "One of his [Casey Stengel's] more practical creations? The butcher boy, in which a batter would draw the infield in by squaring up to bunt ... only to quickly pull it back and take a short, downward swing at the ball."
Usage
Inflected Forms
butcher boys (plural)