butcher boy
A man or boy who works for a butcher shop; a butcher's boy.
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#1·Apr 26, 2026
A man or boy who works for a butcher shop; a butcher's boy.
Common names for woodlice vary throughout the English-speaking world. They include roly-poly, pill bug (usually applied only to the genus Armadillidium), sow bug, butcher boy, daddy gramfer / daddy gampfer (West Country), Granny Grey (So…
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#2·Apr 26, 2026
(uncommon, slang, euphemism) A male prostitute.
One of his [Casey Stengel's] more practical creations? The butcher boy, in which a batter would draw the infield in by squaring up to bunt ... only to quickly pull it back and take a short, downward swing at the ball.
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#3·Apr 26, 2026
(predominantly, _, Australia) A woodlouse, any of various terrestrial crustaceans of the suborder .
Today I stood on a butcher boy. He died. I feel bad.
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