butchery
/ˈbʊt͡ʃəɹi/
butchery noun: the butchering of meat.
Noun (1)
butchery (countable and uncountable, plural butcheries)
- The butchering of meat.
- (coordinate in precise usage referring to animal carcasses)
- This butchery begins in the first Japanese month. For this purpose they put the animal's head between two long poles, which are squeezed together by fifty or sixty people, both men and women. When the bear is dead they eat his flesh, keep the liver as a medicine1922, James Frazer, “Chapter 52”, in The Golden Bough
- A butcher's shop; a meat market.
- Synonyms:
- butcher shop, butcher's
- The cruel, ruthless killings of humans, as if at a slaughterhouse.
- The tyrannous and bloody act is done,—
The most arch deed of piteous massacre
That ever yet this land was guilty of.
Dighton and Forrest, who I did suborn
To do this piece of ruthless butcheryc. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...
- Synonyms:
- slaughter, slaughtering
- The tyrannous and bloody act is done,—
- An abattoir.
- 1899 On the third Friday Jimmie was dropped at the door of the school from the doctor's buggy. The other children, notably those who had already passed over the mountain of distress, looked at him with glee, seeing in him another lamb brought to butchery. — Stephen Crane, Making an Orator.
- 1901 There was good grass on the selection all the year. I’d picked up a small lot—about twenty head—of half-starved steers for next to nothing, and turned them on the run; they came on wonderfully, and my brother-in-law (Mary’s sister’s husband), who was running a butchery at Gulgong, gave me a...
- Synonyms:
- slaughterhouse, slaughtery
- A disastrous effort, an atrocious failure.
- I often wondered how Walcott the director could stand listening to some of his marvelous words and phrases being subjected to verbal butchery as sometimes occurred when a player did not understand what he was speaking or reading.1993, Robert D. Hamner, Critical Perspectives on Derek Walcott, page 275
- Surgery that was botched or is asserted by the speaker to have been so.
Noun (2)
butchery (countable and uncountable, plural butcheries)
butchery meaning in Tamil, Malayalam and Kannada
butchery in Tamil
- பெருங்கொடுமை, சித்திரவதை, படுகொலை, கொலைக்களம், இறைச்சி வெட்டுமிடம், இறைச்சிக்கடை
butchery in Malayalam
- meat selling
- കശാപ്പ്, അറപ്പ്, അറവ്, ഇറച്ചിവെട്ട്, ഇറച്ചിക്കച്ചവടം, ഇറച്ചിവില്പന
- abattoir, slaughterhouse
- കശാപ്പുശാല, അറവുശാല, മൃഗങ്ങളെ അറക്കുന്ന സ്ഥലം, മൃഗങ്ങളെ കശാപ്പുചെയ്യുന്നസ്ഥലം, ചോരപ്പടുകളം, ശൂന
- butcher's (shop), meat market, meat counter
- ഇറച്ചിക്കട, ഇറച്ചി വില്ക്കുന്ന സ്ഥലം, മാംസവ്യാപാരസ്ഥലം
- slaughter, massacre, mass murder
- കശാപ്പ്, കൂട്ടക്കൊല, കൊല, വധം, നരഹത്യ, കൊലചെയ്യൽ
butchery in Kannada
- butchery
- ಕಗ್ಗೊಲೆ kaggole
Synonyms of butchery
Forms of butchery
| plural | butcheries |
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Origin of butchery
From Middle English bocherie, from Old French. See butcher for more.
From butch + -ery.
Questions about butchery
- What does butchery mean?
- Butchery means the butchering of meat.
- What is butchery in Tamil?
- Butchery in Tamil is பெருங்கொடுமை, சித்திரவதை, படுகொலை. See Butchery meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is butchery?
- Butchery is a noun.
- How do you pronounce butchery?
- Butchery is pronounced /ˈbʊt͡ʃəɹi/.
- What is the plural of butchery?
- The plural of butchery is butcheries.
Words near butchery in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: butchery (page history and authors); butchery (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); butchery (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); ಕಗ್ಗೊಲೆ (Kannada) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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