- butchers
- • Rhyming Slang , short for for 'butchers hook' meaning 'look'. A very common example of rhyming slang, usual examples are "give us a butchers" or "let's av a butchers"
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Butchers — Elections to the Mistery of Butchers are recorded in 1328 (Cal. L. Bk. E. p. 233). Fined in 1180 as an adulterine guild. The butchers quarters were Eastcheap and the Shambles at Newgate. Foreign butchers were admitted to sell flesh in … Dictionary of London
Butchers — To have a butchers at something is to have a look. This is a cockney rhyming slang word that has become common. The reason butchers means a lookeven though it doesn t rhyme is because it is short for butchers hook and hook of course, does rhyme … The American's guide to speaking British
butchers — noun Variant spelling of butchers (Cockney rhyming slang) … Wiktionary
butchers — Noun. A look. From the Cockney rhyming slang butcher s hook. E.g. Let s have a butchers at it before you put it back … English slang and colloquialisms
butchers — I. /ˈbʊtʃəz/ (say boochuhz) Colloquial –adjective 1. ill. –phrase 2. go butchers (hook) at, to become angry with. {rhyming slang, butcher s hook crook} II. /ˈbʊtʃəz/ (say …
Butchers Hill, Baltimore — Infobox nrhp | name =Butchers Hill Historic District nrhp type = hd location= Baltimore, Maryland locmapin = Maryland area = architect= architecture= Late Victorian added = December 28, 1982 governing body = Local refnum=82001582cite web|url=http … Wikipedia
Butchers' Bridge — Love padlocks on the Butcher bridge in Ljubljana, Slovenia Butchers Bridge (Slovene: Mesarski most) is a footbridge crossing the river Ljubljanica in Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia. It connects Ljubljana Central Market and the Petkovšek… … Wikipedia
Butchers' Hall Corner — High street in St. Nicholas Shambles by the small lane there leading to the gate at the Butchers Hall Corner, 42 Eliz. (Lond. I. p.m. III. 272). Butchers Hall stood in this parish until destroyed in the Fire 1666 … Dictionary of London
butchers' knife — noun A large, sharp knife, used by the butcher for hacking meats. He came after me with a butchers knife … Wiktionary
Butchers, Street of — Market of flesh and fish allowed still to be kept in Vico Carnificum occidentalium in parochia Sancti Nicholai after the erection of les Stokkes, 17 Ed. II. (Cal. P.R. 1321 4, p. 425). Later, in the time of Richard II., Butchers were not… … Dictionary of London
