butcher boy
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butcher boy
noun butcher boys
- A woodlouse, any of various terrestrial crustaceans of the suborder Oniscidea. Today I stood on a butcher boy. He died. I feel bad.
- A man or boy who works for a butcher shop; a butcher's boy. Bob prick’d his lug and scratch’d his pate / For he was flushed with joy, / To think that he should be revenge’d / Upon the Butcher Boy.
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A male prostitute.
He had clearly become a satyr once again, as evidenced by the rosy-faced butcher-boy that Moore met upon visiting him. The word butcher-boy was, like telegraph-boy, a euphemism for a male prostitute
Similar: rent boy
- Batting at a pitch with a short swing from a bunt position; a slash bunt, a slug bunt. 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.
Talk about this word "butcher boy." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/butcher%20boy. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. butcher boy. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/butcher%20boy "butcher boy." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/butcher%20boy.Cite this
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title = {butcher boy},
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