butcher
English
/ˈbʊtʃ.ə(ɹ)/, /ˈbʊt͡ʃ.ɚ/
noun
Definitions
- A person who prepares and sells meat (and sometimes also slaughters the animals).
- (figurative) A brutal or indiscriminate killer.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) A look.
- (informal) A person who sells candy, drinks, etc. in theatres, trains, circuses, etc.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English buccher derived from boucher derived from Old French bouchier (goat slaughterer, butcher), bouc (goat) derived from Latin buccus.
Origin
Latin
buccus
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- bird English
- blackbuck English
- buck English
- buckberry English
- buckboard English
- buckbrush English
- buckeen English
- bucker English
- buckhorn English
- buckhound English
- buckish English
- buckjumper English
- buckjumping English
- buckle English
- buckmast English
- buckraking English
- bucksaw English
- buckshot English
- buckskin English
- bucksome English
- buckstall English
- buckstay English
- bucktail English
- buckthorn English
- bucktooth English
- bucktoothed English
- bushbuck English
- butcher's English
- butcher's steak English
- butcherbird English
- butcherdom English
- butcherer English
- butcheress English
- butcherliness English
- butcherly English
- butcherous English
- butchershop English
- crossbuck English
- humbucker English
- killbuck English
- kilobuck English
- outbutcher English
- prongbuck English
- reedbuck English
- roebuck English
- sawbuck English
- shop English
- steak English
- terabuck English
- buccus Latin
- boucherie French
- buc Middle English
- buccher Middle English
- búistéir Irish
- bouc Old French
- bouchier Old French
- buc Old French
- बूचड़ Hindi
- buxeo Galician
- buxeu Galician
- bouochi Norman
- ubhusha Zulu
- *bukk Frankish
- بوچڑ Urdu
- bucceri Sicilian
- vuccirìa Sicilian
- becaro Venetian
- boucher xno
- *bukkos Gaulish
- bhucha Shona
- bujabed Kriol
- shop
- bird
- buck
- steak
- bucker
- buckle
- roebuck
- buckish
- buckeen
- sawbuck
- bucksaw
- bucksome
- buckstay
- reedbuck
- bushbuck
- buckhorn
- buckmast
- kilobuck
- killbuck
- buckshot
- bucktail
- buckskin
- terabuck
- buckberry
- buckhound
- crossbuck
- prongbuck
- butcherer
- butcherly
- buckboard
- blackbuck
- buckstall
- humbucker
- buckthorn
- bucktooth
- buckbrush
- butcher's
- butcherdom
- buckjumper
- butcherous
- outbutcher
- butcheress
- buckraking
- butcherbird
- bucktoothed
- butchershop
- buckjumping
- butcherliness
- butcher's steak