Butchering

/ˈbʊtʃərɪŋ/ verb

Killing and cutting up animals for meat, or doing something in a clumsy, destructive way.

From Middle English 'butcher,' from Old French 'bouchier,' possibly from 'bouc' (goat). The figurative meaning (doing something badly) developed by the 1600s.

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