Meaning of butcher boy | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A woodlouse, any of various terrestrial crustaceans of the suborder Oniscidea.
2. A man or boy who works for a butcher shop; a butcher's boy.
3. A male prostitute.
   euphemistic, slang, uncommon
4. Batting at a pitch with a short swing from a bunt position; a slash bunt, a slug bunt.
   US

Examples

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

“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 (South Wales), cheesybug (Kent), and cheeselog.”

“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.”

“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”

“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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