The Dutch word for butcher is
slager
Dutch Definition
| butcher | |
| 1. slager, beenhouwer | |
| 2. slachten |
Translations for butcher and their definitions
| slager |  © | |
| 1. n-m. butcher (one who prepares and sells meat and meat products) | ||
| Je wilt niet dat de slager zijn eigen vlees keurt. - You don't want a butcher to assess his own meat. (i.e., judgment of one's own work is unreliable due to bias) | ||
| 2. n-m. (obsolete) killer, slayer, murderer | ||
| slachten | |
| 1. v. to slaughter |
| beenhouwer | |
| 1. n-m. (chiefly southern) butcher, who professionally sells (and often prepares) meat products |
| slachter | |
| 1. n-m. slaughterer |
| afslachten | |
| 1. v. to butcher, to slaughter | |
| 2. v. to massacre |
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