butchers

Speech parts

1. butchers - Noun

2. butchers - Verb

Meaning

butchers

plural of butcher

butchers (plural butchers)

Alternative form of butcher's (Cockney rhyming slang).

butchers

third-person singular simple present indicative of butcher

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Synonyms

butterfingers butcherly dekko strangles

Antonyms

sill adjutant intuit burrow bridle contribute
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Anagrams

chubster Schubert

Examples

Physicians ought not to give their judgment of religion, for the same reason that butchers are not admitted to be jurors upon life and death. Jonathan Swift

Crime butchers innocence to secure a throne, and innocence struggles with all its might against the attempts of crime. Maximilien Robespierre

Nothing in the next-door world of Dachau impinged on the great winter cycle of Beethoven chamber music played in Munich. No canvases came off museum walls as the butchers strolled reverently past, guide-books in hand. George Steiner

Too many butchers spoil the cow. Afghan Proverb

While the butchers were arguing, the cow dropped dead. Afghan Proverb

Who gets married will be happy for a day, who butchers a pig will be happy for a year. Sicilian Proverb

Close letter words and terms

butcherliness butcherly butcherous butchershop butchery butchery merchant