a person whose job is cutting up and selling meat in a shop or killing animals for this purpose 屠夫;肉贩 Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- local
- halal
- kosher
- …
- butcher’s(plural butchers)
a shop that sells meat 肉店;肉铺 More Like This Shops, etc. with apostrophesShops, etc. with apostrophesTopics Shoppingb2, Jobsb2Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- local
- halal
- kosher
- …
a person who kills people in a cruel and violent way 刽子手
Word OriginMiddle English: from an Anglo-Norman French variant of Old French bochier, from boc ‘he-goat’, probably of the same ultimate origin as the verb buck.
Idioms
have/take a butcher’s
- (British English, slang)
to have a look at something 观看