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Added 10 October 2026

butcher

/ˈbʊt͡ʃə/ noun

In Latin: lanius, macellārius Wiktionary

noun Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA). Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about butcher at Wordnik → Where our words come from →

A person who prepares and sells meat (and sometimes also slaughters the animals).
A brutal or indiscriminate killer.
A person who sells candy, drinks, etc. in theatres, trains, circuses, etc.

verb

To slaughter (animals) and prepare (meat) for market.
To work as a butcher.
To kill brutally.

adjective

comparative form of butch: more butch

Origin

From Middle English bocher, boucher, from Old French bouchier (“goat slaughterer”), from Old French bouc (“goat”), from Medieval Latin buccus (“he-goat”), from Frankish *bukk, from Proto-Germanic *bukkaz (“male goat, male deer”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuǵ- (“buck, ram”). See also English buck.

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