butchery

Meanings

1. The butchering of meat.
2. A butcher's shop; a meat market.
3. The cruel, ruthless killings of humans, as if at a slaughterhouse.
4. An abattoir.
5. A disastrous effort, an atrocious failure.
6. Surgery that was botched or is asserted by the speaker to have been so.

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

Etymology

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

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