What is the name meaning of BUTCH. Phrases containing BUTCH
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BUTCH
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Biblical
Murder, butchery, guarding of the body, a cook'.
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Dutch
Dutch : nickname from been ‘leg’, probably a nickname for a cripple.Dutch : occupational name for a butcher.Dutch : from a short form of any of the various Germanic personal names beginning with the element Ber(n)- ‘bear’, as for example Bernhard.English : variant spelling of Bean.
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English
English : variant of Slaughter.Dutch : occupational name for a butcher, slagter, a variant of Slager.
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German
German : from Middle High German spec ‘bacon’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a seller of bacon or a pork butcher, or a nickname for a bacon eater.German : topographic name from Middle High German speck(e) ‘log bridge’.English : variant of Speak.
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English (mainly southern)
English (mainly southern) : metonymic occupational name for a dancer, or a nickname for someone with an odd gait, from Middle English trip(p)(en) ‘to step lightly, skip, or hop’ (Old French triper).English : metonymic occupational name for a butcher or tripe dresser, from Middle English, Old French trip(p)e ‘tripe’ (of unknown origin).German : metonymic occupational name for a maker of wooden pattens (trippe), a type of raised sole that could be strapped to normal footwear for walking in unpaved muddy streets.
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English
English : from the Old English personal name Hereweard, composed of the elements here ‘army’ + weard ‘guard’, which was borne by an 11th-century thane of Lincolnshire, leader of resistance to the advancing Normans. The Old Norse cognate Hervarðr was also common and, particularly in the Danelaw, it may in part lie behind the surname.Welsh : variant of Havard.John Harvard (1607–38), who gave his name to Harvard College, was the son of a London butcher. He inherited considerable property, and emigrated to MA in 1637. On his death he bequeathed half his estate and the whole of his library to the newly founded college at Cambridge, MA.
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Southern French and German
Southern French and German : from Occitan astor ‘goshawk’ (from Latin acceptor, variant of accipiter ‘hawk’), used as a nickname characterizing a predacious or otherwise hawklike man. The name was taken to southwestern Germany by 17th-century Waldensian refugees from their Alpine valleys above Italian Piedmont.English : variant spelling of Aster.Astor is the name of a famous American family of industrialists and newspaper owners. John Jacob Astor I (1763–1848) was born at Walldorf near Heidelberg, Germany, the son of a butcher. He followed his brother Henry to New York and made a fortune in the fur trade, which was greatly increased by his descendants in industry, hotels, and newspapers. They built the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York. The great-grandson of John Jacob I, William Waldorf Astor (1848–1919), moved to England in 1890, becoming an influential newspaper proprietor and taking British citizenship in 1899. In 1917 he was created Viscount Astor of Hever. His son, the 2nd Viscount (1879–1952), married Nancy Shaw (née Langhorne) (1879–1964), daughter of a VA planter. She became the first woman to sit in the British House of Commons as a member of Parliament.
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Jewish (from Poland)
Jewish (from Poland) : Polish spelling of the occupational surname Mintzer ‘moneyer’.English : unexplained. Perhaps a metonymic occupational name for a butcher, a cook, or a warrior, from a derivative of Middle English mince(n) ‘to mince’, ‘to cut into small pieces’.
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American, Australian, Christian
Butcher; Shining Brightly; Diminutive of Butcher
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Czechoslovakian
Butcher.
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German, Dutch, and Jewish (Ashkenazic)
German, Dutch, and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : from Middle High German or Middle Low German banc, or Yiddish bank ‘bench’, ‘table’, ‘counter’, in any of various senses, e.g. a metonymic occupational name for anyone whose work required a bench or counter, for example a butcher, baker, court official, or money changer.Danish and Swedish : topographic name from bank ‘(sand)bank’ or a habitational name from a farm named with this word.Danish and Swedish : from bank ‘noise’, hence a nickname for a loud or noisy person. Compare Bang.Danish : habitational name from the German place name Bänkau.English : probably a variant of Banks.Americanized spelling of Polish Bąk, literally ‘horsefly’; perhaps a nickname for an irritating person.Hungarian (Bánk) : from a pet form of the old secular personal name Bán.
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English
English : variant spelling of Butcher.German : topographic name for someone who lived by a beech tree or beech wood, from Middle High German buoche ‘beech tree’ + the suffix -er denoting an inhabitant.German : habitational name for someone from any of numerous places called Buch.French (Bûcher) : occupational name for a logger or woodsman, from a derivative of buche ‘log’.One of the earliest immigrants of the Bucher family came from Würzenhaus, Switzerland, to Philadelphia in 1735.
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English
English : from Middle English clevere ‘one who cleaves’ (a derivative of Old English clēofan ‘to split’), hence an occupational name for someone who split wood into planks using a wedge rather than a saw, or possibly for a butcher.English : topographic name from Middle English cleve ‘bank’, ‘slope’ (from the dative of Old English clif) + the suffix -er, denoting an inhabitant.Americanized spelling of German Kliewer or Klüver (see Kluver).
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English
Butcher.
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German (also Häcker), Dutch, and Jewish (Ashkenazic)
German (also Häcker), Dutch, and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : occupational name for a butcher, possibly also for a woodcutter, from an agent derivative of Middle High German hacken, Dutch hakken ‘to hack’, ‘to chop’. The Jewish surname may be from Yiddish heker ‘butcher’, holtsheker ‘woodcutter’ (German Holzhacker), or valdheker ‘lumberjack’, or from German Hacker ‘woodchopper’.English (chiefly Somerset) : from an agent derivative of Middle English hacken ‘to hack’, hence an occupational name for a woodcutter or, perhaps, a maker of hacks (hakkes), a word used in Middle English to denote a variety of agricultural tools such as mattocks and hoes.
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English
English : occupational name for a butcher or slaughterer, Middle English bo(u)cher (Old French bouchier, a derivative of bouc ‘ram’).
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English
English : occupational name for a butcher. In part it is from Middle English flescher, an agent derivative of Old English flǣsc ‘flesh’, ‘meat’; in part a reduced form of Middle English fleschewere, Old English flǣschēawere, in which the second element is an agent noun from hēawan ‘to hew or cut’.
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English American
Butcher.
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English, southern French, and German
English, southern French, and German : from a vernacular form of the Latin personal name (H)adrianus, originally an ethnic name denoting someone from the coast of the Adriatic (Latin Adria). It was adopted as a cognomen by the emperor who ruled ad 117–138. It was also borne by several minor saints, in particular an early martyr at Nicomedia (died c.304), the patron saint of soldiers and butchers. There was an English St. Adrian (died 710), born in North Africa; he was abbot of St. Augustine’s, Canterbury, and his cult enjoyed a brief vogue after the discovery of his supposed remains in 1091. Later, the name was adopted by several popes, including the only pope of English birth, Nicholas Breakspear, who reigned as Adrian IV (1154–59).
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English
English : unexplained. Probably a metonymic occupational name for a venison butcher or sausage maker, from Middle English umbels, numbels ‘offal’ (of a deer), earlier ‘loin or haunch’ (of a deer), a word of Old French origin.
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An American shrike (Lanius Ludovicianus), similar to the butcher bird, but smaller. See Shrike.
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To kill in considerable numbers where much resistance can not be made; to kill with indiscriminate violence, without necessity, and contrary to the usages of nations; to butcher; to slaughter; -- limited to the killing of human beings.
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A shrike or butcher bird; -- called also mattages.
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The business of a butcher.
v. t.
To kill or slaughter (animals) for food, or for market; as, to butcher hogs.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Butcher
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A shrike or butcher bird; -- written also matagasse.
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of Butcher
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Butchery quality.
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A piece cut by butchers, esp. in pork, from either the front or hind leg, just above the foot.
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Like a butcher; without compunction; savage; bloody; inhuman; fell.
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Among butchers, the piece of beef between the sirloin and the aitchbone piece. See Illust. of Beef.
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The business of a butcher.
v. i.
Any one of numerous species of oscinine birds of the family Laniidae, having a strong hooked bill, toothed at the tip. Most shrikes are insectivorous, but the common European gray shrike (Lanius excubitor), the great northern shrike (L. borealis), and several others, kill mice, small birds, etc., and often impale them on thorns, and are, on that account called also butcher birds. See under Butcher.
v. t.
To butcher; to kill for the market, as beasts.
v. i.
A small apartment or shed in which merchandise is exposed for sale; as, a butcher's stall; a bookstall.
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A place where butcher's meat is sold.
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The rejected or waste parts of a butchered animal.
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A house where beasts are butchered for the market.
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The northern butcher bird.