bûcher — meaning in English

English meaning

• bonfire noun A large outdoor fire, often lit for celebration or to burn unwanted material.
• pyre noun A pile of wood built for burning a corpse as part of a funeral ceremony.
• swot verb To study with effort or determination.
• woodshed noun A small outdoor building used to store firewood.

Senses

bûcher is used for these senses in English:

• bang away (idiomatic, intransitive) to work tirelessly
• beaver away (idiomatic) To work hard at a task.
• bonfire A fire lit outdoors to burn unwanted items; originally (historical) , heretics or other offenders, or banned books; now, generally agricultural or garden waste, or rubbish.
• burn the midnight oil (idiomatic) To work studiously, especially late into the night.
• pyre A funeral pile; a combustible heap on which corpses are burned.
• swot (intransitive, slang, UK, Irish, Commonwealth) To study with effort or determination.
• woodshed An enclosed, roofed structure, often an outbuilding, used primarily to store firewood.

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