butcher

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

butcher [butcher butchers butchered butchering] noun, verb BrE [ˈbʊtʃə(r)] NAmE [ˈbʊtʃər]
noun
1. a person whose job is cutting up and selling meat in a shop/store or killing animals for this purpose
2. butcher's(pl. butchers)a shop/store that sells meat
•He owns the butcher's in the main street.
3. a person who kills people in a cruel and violent way

Word Origin:
Middle English: from an Anglo-Norman French variant of Old French bochier, from boc ‘he-goat’, probably of the same ultimate origin as the verb ↑buck.
Idiom: ↑have a butcher's
 
verb
1. ~ sb to kill people in a very cruel and violent way
2. ~ sth to kill animals and cut them up for use as meat
3. ~ sth (especially NAmE)to spoil sth by doing it very badly
•The script was good, but those guys butchered it.
Verb forms:

Word Origin:
Middle English: from an Anglo-Norman French variant of Old French bochier, from boc ‘he-goat’, probably of the same ultimate origin as the verb ↑buck.
 

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  bungler, blunderer, fumbler, bumbler, stumbler, sad sack, botcher, fuckup, slaughterer, meatman, slaughter