adj. slang masculine; toughlooking. [origin uncertain] butcher rbutfa(r)/ n. 1 a person who deals in meat. b slaughterer. 2 brutal murderer. v. 1 slaughter or cut up (an animal) for food. 2 kill wantonly or cruelly. 3 colloq. ruin through incompetence. [French boc BUCK’] butchery n. (pl. ies)1 needless or cruel slaughter (of people). 2 butcher’s trade. butler n. principal manservant of a household. [French bouteille bottle] butt’ v. 1 push or strike with the head or horns. 2 (cause to) meet edge to edge. n. 1 push with the head. 2 join of two edges. ‘ butt in interrupt, meddle. [French from Germanic]
