Difference between Butcher and Meatman

What is the difference between Butcher and Meatman?

Butcher as a noun is a person who prepares and sells meat (and sometimes also slaughters the animals). while Meatman as a noun is a butcher; one who prepares or sells meat.

Butcher

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A person who prepares and sells meat (and sometimes also slaughters the animals). A brutal or indiscriminate killer. (Cockney rhyming slang, via butcher's hook) A look. A person who sells candy, drinks, etc. in theatres, trains, circuses , etc. (old, informal).

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To slaughter animals and prepare meat for market. To kill brutally. To ruin something, often to the point of defamation.

Example sentence: I love Korean food, and it's kind of like home to me. The area that I grew up in outside Chicago, Glenview, is heavily Korean. A lot of my friends growing up were Korean and when I would eat dinner at their houses, their parents wouldn't tell me the names of the dishes because I would butcher the language.

Meatman

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A butcher; one who prepares or sells meat.

We hope you now know whether to use Butcher or Meatman in your sentence.

Also read

Popular Articles