butcher

Definition

A person who prepares and sells meat (and sometimes also slaughters the animals).

Etymology

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.

Example Sentences

• "He looked in vain into the stalls for the butcher who had sold fresh meat twice a week, on market days..."
• "Butcher of an innocent child."