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butchery

noun
/ˈbʊt͡ʃəɹi/

Etymology

From Middle English bocherie, from Old French. See butcher for more.

  1. inherited from bocherie

Definitions

  1. The butchering of meat.

    • (coordinate in precise usage referring to animal carcasses)

  2. A butcher's shop

    A butcher's shop; a meat market.

  3. The cruel, ruthless killings of humans, as if at a slaughterhouse.

    • The tyrannous and bloody act is done,— The most arch deed of piteous massacre That ever yet this land was guilty of. Dighton and Forrest, who I did suborn To do this piece of ruthless butchery
  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. An abattoir.

    2. A disastrous effort, an atrocious failure.

      • I often wondered how Walcott the director could stand listening to some of his marvelous words and phrases being subjected to verbal butchery as sometimes occurred when a player did not understand what he was speaking or reading.

    3. The stereotypical behaviors and accoutrements of a butch lesbian.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at butchery. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01butchery02market03convenience04convenient05suiting06fabric07fabrication

A definitional loop anchored at butchery. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at butchery

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA