butcher
noun
[ ˈbʊtʃə ]
• a person whose trade is cutting up and selling meat in a shop.
• a person selling refreshments, newspapers, etc. on a train or in a theatre.
butcher
verb
• slaughter or cut up (an animal) for food.
Origin:
Middle English: from an Anglo-Norman French variant of Old French bochier, from boc ‘he-goat’, probably of the same ultimate origin as buck1.
butch
adjective
• having an appearance or other qualities of a type traditionally seen as masculine.
• "a butch woman in a baseball cap"
Similar:
manly,
masculine,
all man,
virile,
red-blooded,
swashbuckling,
mannish,
manlike,
unfeminine,
unladylike,
Amazonian,
macho,
viraginous,
viragoish,
Origin:
mid 19th century: originally US dialect, short for butch knife, in the sense ‘a butcher's knife’; the current senses date from the mid 20th century.
