Word.ws English Dictionary

Piccadilly butchers

Piccadilly butchers is the plural of Piccadilly butcher.

Meaning of Piccadilly butcher

Noun

Piccadilly butcher (plural Piccadilly butchers)

  1. (UK, derogatory, obsolete, slang) A member of the regiment of Horse Guards, or "Royal Blues".
    • The mob in the meantime holloaed out, "No Corn Bill!" While they were proceeding in this manner, a cry was raised that "the Piccadilly butchers were coming."1875, The Law Magazine and Review, page 554

Questions about Piccadilly butchers

What is Piccadilly butchers the plural of?
Piccadilly butchers is the plural of Piccadilly butcher.

Words near Piccadilly butchers in the dictionary

  1. piccadillies
  2. piccadillo
  3. piccadills
  4. piccadilly
  5. Piccadilly butcher
  6. Piccadilly butchers
  7. Piccadilly Circus
  8. Piccadilly weeper
  9. Piccadilly weepers
  10. piccadils
  11. piccage

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Piccadilly butchers (page history and authors); Piccadilly butcher (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “Piccadilly butchers.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/piccadilly_butchers. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.