butchery.
The butchering of meat.
Meaning & usage
The butchering of meat.
A butcher's shop; a meat market.
The cruel, ruthless killings of humans, as if at a slaughterhouse.
An abattoir.
A disastrous effort, an atrocious failure.
A disastrous effort, an atrocious failure. Surgery that was botched or is asserted by the speaker to have been so.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English bocherie, from Old French. See butcher for more.
The stereotypical behaviors and accoutrements of a butch lesbian.
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree English butch Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -ārius Old French -ier Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós Proto-Italic *-ijos 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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