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butch·er [ bchÉ™r ]


noun  (plural butch·ers)
Definition:
 
1. meat seller: somebody who sells meat at retail

2. slaughterer: somebody who slaughters animals for their meat

3. commerce premises of butcher: a store that sells prepared raw meat and meat products

4. brutal killer: somebody who kills people in a brutal manner

5. inexpert proponent of something: somebody who does something badly and produces unattractive results
a butcher of the sonnet form



transitive verb  (past and past participle butch·ered, present participle butch·er·ing, 3rd person present singular butch·ers)
Definition:
 
1. kill animal for food: to slaughter and prepare the meat of an animal for food

2. kill people brutally: to kill people in a brutal way

3. botch something: to do something badly and produce unattractive results ( informal )
The original script had been butchered.

[13th century. < Anglo-Norman form of Old French bo(u)chier "slaughterer of he-goats" < boc "he-goat"]

butch·er·er noun

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