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butcher
noun- a beer glass of 170 ml capacity; also, a serving in one of these glasses AUSTRALIA, 1889
Used only in the state of South Australia, the “butcher” was originally a long thin glass holding over a pint; the size has gradually diminished over the years. Said by some to be derived from the German becher (C19 South Australia had a large German migrant community), but this doesn’t sound remotely like “butcher”. Other folk etymologies about butchers requiring a certain type of beer glass abound. - And as it was my “shout”, I drank the last inch of West End in my “butcher”[.] — John O’Grady, It’s Your Shout, Mate!, p. 29, 1972
- a surgeon US, 1849
- — Maledicta, p. 57, Summer 1980: “Not sticks and stones, but names: more medical pejoratives”
- a medical student AUSTRALIA, 1984
Used by undergraduates of the University of Sydney. - a prison dentist UK
- — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 32, 1996
- a prison guard captain US
- — Marlene Freedman, Alcatraz, 1983
- in a pack of playing cards, a king UK, 1937
- — Jay Robert Nash, Dictionary of Crime, p. 52, 1992
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