Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • A young one; a boy, babe, bairn, urchin, chit, chicken, sapling, etc.

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Examples

  • “An when anybody tries tu tell me or mine that Protestant preachers an public schools is fit fu decent, God-fearing Americans, I tells um, ‘Well, I never say nothing bad about nobody, butcha oughta read u papers an listen to Father Moneyhan.’”

    The Dollmaker Harriette Arnow 1954

  • We divided um up last night—kinda crowds a person, butcha gotta do somethen—them little kids, an it cold.

    The Dollmaker Harriette Arnow 1954

  • Lots u fun; butcha gotta line up an push—hard—real hard, like they was a door in front a yu an a fire behind yu.

    The Dollmaker Harriette Arnow 1954

  • There he left her with her _butcha_, [3] my half-brother, and journeyed toward the setting sun to look upon the face of his father the Jam Saheb.

    Driftwood Spars The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life Percival Christopher Wren 1913

  • And I don’t know how you hid from my camera on Friday night–butcha did!

    whole lemon tart + strawberry tart | smitten kitchen 2007

  • “Christ yu meant it tu be—butcha couldn’t find no face fu him.”

    The Dollmaker Harriette Arnow 1954

  • Mrs. Miller only nodded, I don’t neither, butcha gotta learn some time.

    The Dollmaker Harriette Arnow 1954

  • If you’d stayed in th car like we said, we’d have their number now an—butcha didn’t; that’s that.

    The Dollmaker Harriette Arnow 1954

  • It’s shorter tu go by du tracks, butcha gotta watch out onu tracks.

    The Dollmaker Harriette Arnow 1954

  • "_Man, Sahib_! too much quentence have got that chee-chee woman; that chee-chee woman all same dam iscamp; paunch butcha not have got, -- one butcha not have got.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858 Various

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  • From The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia:

    "A young one; a boy, babe, bairn, urchin, chit, chicken, sapling, etc."

    July 11, 2017