butchering
Example:
Now that the kids are asleep, want to do some butchering?
I totally butchered Sarah last night.
Now that the kids are asleep, want to do some butchering?
I totally butchered Sarah last night.
The Butcher
butchers
Example:
have a butchers at this for me
have a butchers at this for me
butchered
(past participle)
When a task has been performed to a deplorable standard.
When something has been damaged completely.
Synonymous with: ruined, messed up, slaughtered, botched, bungled
When a task has been performed to a deplorable standard.
When something has been damaged completely.
Synonymous with: ruined, messed up, slaughtered, botched, bungled
Example:
I'm never using those those manufacturers again -- They completely butchered the design.
(They changed my design to an unrecoverable extent)
My answer *should* be right.. ..unless of-course I've butchered the working somewhere...
(My answer should be correct unless I've made a mistake in my working to the problem)
Avondale College butchered those chaps from MAGS.
(The team from Avondale college soundly beat the team from Mount Albert Grammar School)
I'm never using those those manufacturers again -- They completely butchered the design.
(They changed my design to an unrecoverable extent)
My answer *should* be right.. ..unless of-course I've butchered the working somewhere...
(My answer should be correct unless I've made a mistake in my working to the problem)
Avondale College butchered those chaps from MAGS.
(The team from Avondale college soundly beat the team from Mount Albert Grammar School)
butcher's
In cockney rhyming slang, to "have a butcher's" means to have a look, from the rhyming slang "butcher's hook".
butchers
An adaptation of the cockney Rhyming Slang "Bucthers Hook" (to look) made by locals from the Isle of Wight, England. In this case it's been used to discribe petty persistent criminals or a crook, hence the Butchers bit (butchers hook - crook).Beleived to have started primarily in the West of the Island in the early 1980's. Then went on to pervade the island and some parts of the near mainland. Now it is used to describe any Kind of criminal activity from torching a car to burglary and shoplifting.
butchers
Example:
Here let's have a butchers at that! (notso commonly - 'Here let's have a butchers hook at that!)
Here let's have a butchers at that! (notso commonly - 'Here let's have a butchers hook at that!)
a butcher's
Cockney rhyming slang -- a butcher's hook, rhymes with look. The slang gets trickey in use as it is usually truncated. Apples and pears becomes apples, but refers to stairs.