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BUTCHER MEAT, n.comb. Butcher's meat (Sh., Ork., Cai., Bnff., Edb., Arg., Gsw., Ayr., Dmf., Rxb. 2000s).wm.Sc. 1977 William McIlvanney Laidlaw (1985) 32:
'You're probably right, Ian. Just don't get too used to it. I know folk who don't even notice any more. They deliver dead bodies as if they were butcher-meat.'Per. 1990 Betsy Whyte Red Rowans and Wild Honey (1991) 36:
Several loaves of bread baked that day and even cakes; butter which had gone yellow and neep-tasted; dollops of hard cheese; fruit which was just on the turn–and even butcher meat which would not keep for another day, but was still eatable.Edb. 1990 James Allan Ford in Joy Hendry Chapman 59 45:
A day or two after my mother had made a lone seagull of me, she stopped by my bollard on her way up to the Kirkgate to get butcher meat for my father's tea, and asked if I would like to go with her.Sc. 1999 Scotsman 4 Mar 16:
It could only be in the United States, that such a weight of prime butcher-meat comes hurtling out of the sky and dents your paintwork.Sc. 2003 Edinburgh Evening News 27 Jun 22:
"People don't seem to understand the effect these weapons have on another human being. A meat cleaver is designed to do just that and has the same effect on a human as it does on a piece of butcher meat."Sc. 2003 Scotland on Sunday 2 Nov 6:
She bought butcher meat with her pocket money and, when that ran out, she resorted to pinching the family dog's food.Sc. 2004 Herald 10 Jan 1:
Aye, but what about square sausages and tattie scones? "The butcher meat is not the same down here [Liverpool] so I get people to bring stuff down from my local butcher," ...