butchery
/B UH1 CH ER0 IY0/noun
- 1
The cruel, ruthless killings of humans, as at a slaughterhouse.
- 2
An abattoir, a slaughterhouse.
- 3
The butchering of meat.
- 4
A disastrous effort, an atrocious failure.
“This week’s impossible-to-pronounce word: Catania. Granted, it’s a little trickier than Palermo, but there was no excusing the verbal butchery that ensued. —blog.”
- 5
A meat market
noun
- 1
The stereotypical behaviors and accoutrements of being a butch lesbian.
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