outbutcher

verb 2

Definitions

verb

1

To slaughter more people than.

Adapted to the weakness of human nature, which receives with rivirince ideas however childish, that come draped in long-tailed and exotic words, that aasinine^([sic]) polysyllable has riconciled the modern mind to the chimeras of th' ancients, and outbutchered the guillotine, the musket, and the sword:

Thus, the car in the United States outbutchers the bloody shambles of Mars when matched against our soldiers killed in the World War.

2

To do a better job than, in carving up an animal into cuts of meat.

The aunties' knives had long, slender, wickedly sharp blades with handles carved variously of wood, bone and antler, with which they outbutchered even Old Sam, who had only been doing this for a living for sixty years.

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