BUTCHER
ADJECTIVES
► LANIARIOUS butcher-like → 1651 obs.
► LANIONIOUS pert. to a butcher → 1656 obs.
► MACELLARIOUS pert. to the butchers row or shambles → 1656 obs.
NOUNS
► BLOCKER a small piece of meat placed for sale on the butcher’s block, as opposed to the ‘joints’ hung on hooks → 1848 colloq.
► BUTCHERDOM butchers collectively; also, the state of being a butcher; the craft of a butcher → 1857
► BUTCHER ROW stalls, in which butchers formerly prepared and sold meat → 1425
► BUTCHERY butchers collectively; the community of butchers → 1425 obs.
► FAGGOT ► FAGOT butcher’s oddments or ‘stickings’ → 1859 colloq.
► GUT PLUNGE ON BUTCH a scrounging for meat from a butcher’s shop by a tramp → 1920 US sl.
► LANIARY a butcher’s slaughter-house; a ‘shambles’ → 1623 obs.
► LANIATION a tearing like a butcher → 1623 obs.
► SHACKLES the off-cuts from a butcher’s preparing of meat for sale → 1910 sl.
► WRAP-UP a parcel of scraps from the butcher → 1960 Irish sl.
NOUNS, PERSON
► ADMIRAL OF THE BLUE a butcher who dresses in blue to conceal blood-stains → 1894 (Bk.)
► BROTHER BLADE a butcher → 1890 sl. (Bk.)
► BUTCHER MAN a butcher → 1481
► BUTCHERESS a female butcher; also, a butcher’s wife or daughter → 1802
► BUTCHY a butcher → 1867 colloq. obs.
► CAD a journeyman butcher, shoemaker, or bricklayer → 1876 Eng. dial.
► CAD-BUTCHER ► KAD-BUTCHER a ‘ket-butcher’; one who deals in unwholesome meat, or carrion → 1877 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► CARCASE LORDS wholesale butchers, who monopolize and forestall the markets → 1890 sl. (Bk.)
► GREASY a butcher → 1920 sl.
► HACK-MEAT a butcher → 19C Eng. dial.
► HAGGARD a butcher → 1813 Sc., opprobrious
► HAGWIFE a female butcher; a woman who cuts or prepares meat → 1779 Sc. obs.
► KNIGHT OF THE CLEAVER a butcher → 1830 sl.
► MEAT MAN a butcher or retailer of meat → 1907 Amer. dial.
► MUTTON-MONGER a butcher; a seller of mutton → 1649 sl. obs.
► OX-FELLER a butcher → 1856 jocular usage
► PIG-STICKER a pork butcher → 1850
► PORKY a pork butcher → L19 sl.
► TANKY a butcher → 1945 US World War II Navy usage
VERBS
► BUTCH to work as a butcher; to carry on the trade of a butcher → 1846
► MASSACREE to butcher, to massacre, to kill; to destroy life by accident → 1891 Eng. dial.
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