Editing Butcher (section)

==Metaphorical use==
:''See also [[Butcher (disambiguation)]]''
[[File:The blood of the murdered crying for vengeance (BM 1868,0808.6277).jpg|thumb|upright=0.7|"...revenge the blood of a Monarch most I undeservedly '''butchered''',..."
]]In various periods and cultures, the term "butcher" has been applied to people who act cruelly to other human beings or slaughter them. For example, [[Pompey]], a prominent [[Ancient Rome|Roman]] general and politician of the first century BC, got the [[Latin]] nickname ''adulescentulus carnifex'', translated as "The Teenage Butcher" or "The Butcher Boy", due to brutal treatment of political opponents in the early part of his career.  More recently, the Bosnian Serb war criminal [[Ratko Mladić]] was nicknamed "the Butcher of [[the Balkans]]". 

The term can also be used in a semi-humorous or metaphorical way to describe someone whose actions resemble the various skills and methods of a butcher (chopping, cutting, slicing, stabbing etc.) Spanish footballer [[Andoni Goikoetxea]] was popularly ascribed the epithet "The Butcher of Bilbao" in recognition of his perceived aggressive style of play and frequent, sometimes injurious, challenges on opposing players.