BUTCHER

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Traducere în limba română

butcher I. substantiv

1. măcelar, casap.

2. călău, gâde.

3. (fig.) măcelar, om sângeros, călău.

4. (şi train butcher) (amer.) vânzător de dulciuri (în trenuri).

5. momeală artificială (pentru prinsul somonului).

butcher II. verb tranzitiv

1. a tăia, a (în)junghia (animale).

2. a ucide, a omorî, a măcelări, a căsăpi, a sfârteca.

3. (fig.) a mutila, a denatura.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

The baker stopped at two dollars, and the butcher at four dollars.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

The preliminaries are adjusted, and the butcher and myself stand face to face.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

I am sorry to say that I am very far from well; and Jemima has just told me that the butcher says there is a bad sore-throat very much about.

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)

For me, I have played the old game of war since ever I had hair on my chin, and I have seen ten thousand brave men in one day with their faces to the sky, but I swear by Him who made me that I cannot abide the work of the butcher.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

So on they went together into the town: and as they passed by a butcher’s shop, the sparrow said to the dog, “Stand there a little while till I peck you down a piece of meat.”

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

The butcher’s?

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Who is this young butcher?

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

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