Butcher vs Knifed - What's the difference?
butcher | knifed |
A person who prepares and sells meat (and sometimes also slaughters the animals).
* 1900', , Chapter I,
(by extension) A brutal or indiscriminate killer.
* Shakespeare
(Cockney rhyming slang, from butcher's hook) A look.
(informal, obsolete) A person who sells candy, drinks, etc. in theatres, trains, circuses, etc.
To slaughter (animals) and prepare (meat) for market.
To kill brutally.
To ruin (something), often to the point of defamation.
(knife)
A utensil or a tool designed for cutting, consisting of a flat piece of hard material, usually steel or other metal (the blade), usually sharpened on one edge, attached to a handle. The blade may be pointed for piercing.
* 2007 , Scott Smith, The Ruins , page 273
A weapon designed with the aforementioned specifications intended for slashing and/or stabbing and too short to be called a sword. A dagger.
Any blade-like part in a tool or a machine designed for cutting, such as the knives for a chipper.
To cut with a knife .
To use a knife' to injure or kill by stabbing, slashing, or otherwise using the sharp edge of the ' knife as a weapon.
To cut through as if with a knife .
To betray, especially in the context of a political slate.
To positively ignore, especially in order to denigrate. compare cut
As a proper noun butcher
is for a butcher.As a verb knifed is
(knife).butcher
English
(wikipedia butcher)Noun
(en noun)- He looked in vain into the stalls for the butcher who had sold fresh meat twice a week, on market days...
- Butcher of an innocent child.
Derived terms
* * butcher's hook * pork butcherVerb
(en verb)- The band at that bar really butchered "Hotel California".
Synonyms
* kill, slaughter * (kill brutally) massacre, slay * murderknifed
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Verb
(head)Anagrams
*knife
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Noun
(knives)- Jeff was bent low over the backboard, working with the knife , a steady sawing motion, his shirt soaked through with sweat.