Butcher vs Meatman - What's the difference?
butcher | meatman |
A person who prepares and sells meat (and sometimes also slaughters the animals).
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(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.
As nouns the difference between butcher and meatman
is that butcher is a person who prepares and sells meat (and sometimes also slaughters the animals) while meatman is a butcher; one who prepares or sells meat.As a verb butcher
is to slaughter (animals) and prepare (meat) for market.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".