adj. Like a butcher; characterised by slaughter, savage.
ad. Like a butcher; cruelly, brutally.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
adj. Like a butcher; without compunction; savage; bloody; inhuman; fell.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Pertaining to or characteristic of a butcher; done in the manner of a buteher.
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adj. poorly done
adj. accompanied by bloodshed
Word Usage
"I think thou couldst not expect I should frame lies for thee; and after all, John, in my broken recollections of that night, I do bethink me of a butcherly looking mute, with a curtal axe, much like such a one as may have done yonder night job."