English Dictionary

butcher boy

noun

(predominantly Australia) A woodlouse, any of various terrestrial crustaceans of the suborder Oniscidea. / A man or boy who works for a butcher shop; a butcher's boy.

I found a butcher boy in the garden.

意味（1）

(predominantly Australia) A woodlouse, any of various terrestrial crustaceans of the suborder Oniscidea.

Today I stood on a butcher boy. He died. I feel bad.

意味（2）

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.

意味（3）

(uncommon, slang, euphemistic) 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

意味（4）

(US, baseball) 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.