[ˈbʊtʃə], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a person whose trade is cutting up and selling meat in a shop

- a person who kills people indiscriminately or brutally
(e.g: a callous butcher of men)

- a person selling refreshments, newspapers, etc. on a train or in a theatre


Phrases:
- as fit as a butcher's dog
- have a butcher's

Origin:
Middle English: from an Anglo-Norman French variant of Old French bochier, from boc ‘he-goat’, probably of the same ultimate origin as buck

[ˈbʊtʃə], (Verb)

Definitions:
- slaughter or cut up (an animal) for food

- kill (a person or people) indiscriminately or brutally
(e.g: they rounded up and butchered 250 people)


Phrases:
- as fit as a butcher's dog
- have a butcher's

Origin:
Middle English: from an Anglo-Norman French variant of Old French bochier, from boc ‘he-goat’, probably of the same ultimate origin as buck