3 ms·
>On the other hand, the pathologist assigned to work on the bodies I would prepare was a German, and she was named Fleishhacker, which sounded to Mr. Utton as t
by dbbolton 11y ago
>On the other hand, the pathologist assigned to work on the bodies I would prepare was a German, and she was named Fleishhacker, which sounded to Mr. Utton as though it should mean butcher, but actually didn't.
It actually does though: http://dict.leo.org/ende/index_en.html#/search=Fleischhacker http://dict.leo.org/ende/index_en.html#/search=Fleischhacker
- deleted 11y ago[deleted]
- detaro 11y agoYeah. One never would translate butcher to "Fleischhacker", since that word isn't really used outside of last names, but it clearly means a butcher.
- dbbolton 11y agoTo clarify, Fleischhacker is a legitimate translation of "butcher", but only in a figurative sense: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/slaughterer#Translations https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/slaughterer#Translations I'm guessing that the original author was saying that it doesn't literally refer to a person who cuts meat for a living (like Metzger), which is true. However, it's still a sort of funny name for a person in that profession to have.