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Knacker vs Butcher - What's the difference?

knacker | butcher |

As nouns the difference between knacker and butcher

is that knacker is one who makes knickknacks, toys, etc while butcher is a person who prepares and sells meat (and sometimes also slaughters the animals).

As verbs the difference between knacker and butcher

is that knacker is to tire out, become exhausted while butcher is to slaughter (animals) and prepare (meat) for market.

As a proper noun Butcher is

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knacker

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • One who makes knickknacks, toys, etc.
    • (Mortimer)
  • One of two or more pieces of bone or wood held loosely between the fingers, and struck together by moving the hand; a clapper.
    • (Halliwell)
  • A harness maker.
  • One who slaughters and (especially) renders worn-out livestock (especially horses) and sells their flesh, bones and hides.
  • * 1933 , George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London , Ch. XXII, Harvest / Harcourt paperback edition, pg. 117-118,
    • After a few years even the whip loses its virtue, and the pony goes to the knacker
  • One who dismantles old ships, houses etc., and sells their components.
  • (Ireland, British, offensive) A member of the Travelling Community; a Gypsy.
  • (Ireland, offensive, slang) A person of lower social class; a chav, skanger or scobe.

    • Derived terms

    * knacker's yard

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To tire out, become exhausted.
    • Carrying that giant statue up those stairs knackered me out

    butcher

    English

    (wikipedia 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