Butcherとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音, General Australian) IPA: /ˈbʊt͡ʃ.ə/
• (米国発音, Canada) IPA: /ˈbʊt͡ʃ.ɚ/
• 韻: -ʊtʃə(ɹ)

語源 1

From 中期英語 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.

名詞

butcher (plural butchers)

1. A person who prepares and sells meat (and sometimes also slaughters the animals).
   • 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, chapter I, in 'The House Behind the Cedars:

     He looked in vain into the stalls for the butcher who had sold fresh meat twice a week, on market days...

2. (figurative) A brutal or indiscriminate killer.

   Synonyms: carnager, mayhemist

   • c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii]:

     Butcher of an innocent child.

3. (Cockney rhyming slang, from butcher's hook) A look.
4. (informal, obsolete) A person who sells candy, drinks, etc. in theatres, trains, circuses, etc.
5. (colloquial, archaic, card games) A king playing card.

   Coordinate term: bitch

同意語

派生語

派生した語

• → Hindi: बूचड़ (būcaṛ)
• → Swahili: bucha
• → Urdu: بُوچَڑ (būcaṛ)

動詞

butcher (third-person singular simple present butchers, present participle butchering, simple past and past participle butchered)

1. (transitive) To slaughter (animals) and prepare (meat) for market.

   Synonyms: kill, slaughter

2. (intransitive) To work as a butcher.
   • 2008, Monte Dwyer, Red In The Centre: The Australian Bush Through Urban Eyes, Monyer Pty Ltd, page 121:

     He tells me he now earns three times as much as he did butchering.

3. (transitive) To kill brutally.

   Synonyms: massacre, slay

4. (transitive) To ruin (something), often to the point of defamation.

   Synonym: murder

   The band at that bar really butchered "Hotel California".

5. (transitive) To mess up hopelessly; to botch; to distort beyond recognition.

   Synonyms: debase, bastardize

   I am bad at pronouncing names, so my apologies if I butcher any of your names.

参照

• (king playing card): 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary

語源 2

From butch +‎ -er.

形容詞

butcher

1. comparative form of butch: more butch
   • 2003, Alisa Solomon, Re-Dressing the Canon: Essays on Theatre and Gender, page 170:

     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).

アナグラム

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