butcherとは意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈbʊtʃ.ə(ɹ)/
• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈbʊt͡ʃ.ɚ/
• 韻: -ʊtʃə(ɹ)

語源 1

From Middle English buccher, bucher, boucher, bocher, from Anglo-Norman boucher, Old French bouchier (“goat slaughterer”), from Old French bouc (“goat”), from Medieval Latin buccus (“he-goat”), of Germanic origin. More at English buck.

名詞

butcher (複数形 butchers)

1. A person who prepares and sells meat (かつ sometimes also slaughters the animals).
   • 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, chapter I, in 'The House Behind the Cedars:

     He looked in vain into the stalls for the butcher who had sold fresh meat twice a week, on market days...

2. (figuratively) A brutal or indiscriminate killer.
   • c. 1596, William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act IV, scene ii]:

     Butcher of an innocent child.

3. (Cockney rhyming slang, from butcher's hook) A look.
4. (informal, obsolete) A person who sells candy, drinks, etc. in theatres, trains, circuses, etc.

同意語

• carnager
• flesher 1
• mayhemist
• slayer 2

派生語

派生した語

• → Hindi: बूचड़ (būcaṛ)
• → Swahili: bucha
• → Urdu: بوچڑ‎ (būcaṛ)

動詞

butcher (三人称単数 現在形 butchers, 現在分詞 butchering, 過去形および過去分詞形 butchered)

1. (transitive) To slaughter (animals) and prepare (meat) for market.

   Synonyms: kill, slaughter

2. (transitive) To kill brutally.

   Synonyms: massacre, slay

3. (transitive) To ruin (something), often to the point of defamation.

   The band at that bar really butchered "Hotel California".

   Synonym: murder

4. (transitive) To mess up hopelessly; to botch.

   I am bad at pronouncing names, so my apologies if I butcher any of your names.

語源 2

butch +‎ -er

形容詞

butcher

1. comparative form of butch: more butch
   • 2003, Alisa Solomon, Re-Dressing the Canon: Essays on Theatre and Gender, page 170:

     Weaver and Shaw dance together and almost immediately another butch, an even butcher butch (Leslie Feinberg), cuts in to dance with Shaw (though Shaw would kill me if she heard me call someone a butcher butch).