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butcherless

butcherless adjective: without a butcher.

Adjective

butcherless (not comparable)

  1. Without a butcher.
    • In this new type butcherless butcher shop all meat is displayed packed in cartons and with soft lights and easy chairs the shop looks like a women's wear store, rather than a meat market.1931, Popular Science, volume 118, number 3, page 32

Origin of butcherless

From butcher + -less.

Questions about butcherless

What does butcherless mean?
Butcherless means without a butcher.
What part of speech is butcherless?
Butcherless is an adjective.

Words near butcherless in the dictionary

  1. butcheries
  2. butchering
  3. butcherings
  4. butcherknife
  5. butcherknives
  6. butcherless
  7. butcherlike
  8. butcherliness
  9. butcherly
  10. butcherous
  11. butchers

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