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The Portuguese word for butcher is
talhante





butcher

Gender

The gender of talhante is masculine. E.g. o talhante.

Portuguese Definition


butcher
     1. abater, talhar
     2. talhante, açougueiro



Translations for butcher and their definitions

abater
     1. v. to collapse
     2. v. to topple
     3. v. to slaughter
     4. v. to abate, weaken
     5. v. to reduce


talhante
     1. n. (Portugal) butcher (a person who prepares and sells meat)
     2. adj. able to chop


talhar
     1. v. to cut; to slice to chop
     2. v. to sharpen
     3. v. to carve


açougueiro
     1. n-m. butcher (a person who prepares and sells meat)


açougueira
     1. n-f. female equivalent of açougueiro


carniceiro
     1. n-m. an animal that feeds on carrion
     2. n-m. butcher (person who prepares and sells meat)
     3. n-m. (figurative) butcher (a brutal killer)
     4. adj. (of animals) feeding on carrion
     5. adj. (of people) brutal (viciously violent)


trucidar
     1. v. to slaughter; to butcher (kill brutally)
     2. v. (informal, transitive) to destroy (defeat soundly)


massacrar
     1. v. to massacre


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