Definitions
kill (animals) usually for food consumption
Word 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.
Used in a sentence
“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.”
“He tells me he now earns three times as much as he did butchering.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Meat seller”7 letters
Not quite right?
"Search similar patterns."
B______