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Butcher vs Slaughterer - What's the difference?

butcher | slaughterer |

As nouns the difference between butcher and slaughterer

is that butcher is a person who prepares and sells meat (and sometimes also slaughters the animals) while slaughterer is agent noun of slaughter; one who slaughters.

As a verb butcher

is to slaughter (animals) and prepare (meat) for market.

As a proper noun Butcher

is {{surname|A=An|occupational|from=occupations}} for a butcher.

butcher

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person who prepares and sells meat (and sometimes also slaughters the animals).
  • * 1900', , Chapter I,
  • He looked in vain into the stalls for the butcher who had sold fresh meat twice a week, on market days...
  • (by extension) A brutal or indiscriminate killer.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Butcher of an innocent child.
  • (Cockney rhyming slang, from butcher's hook) A look.
  • (informal, obsolete) A person who sells candy, drinks, etc. in theatres, trains, circuses, etc.
  • Derived terms

    * * butcher's hook * pork butcher

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To slaughter (animals) and prepare (meat) for market.
  • To kill brutally.
  • To ruin (something), often to the point of defamation.
  • The band at that bar really butchered "Hotel California".

    Synonyms

    * kill, slaughter * (kill brutally) massacre, slay * murder

    slaughterer

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Agent noun of slaughter; one who slaughters.
  • A butcher (as a profession or job).
  • A ritual slaughterer, kosher slaughterer, kosher butcher, shochet / shokhet.