Noun: butcher
| Singular | butcher |
| Plural | butchers |
Sample Sentences
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He looked in vain into the stalls for the butcher who had sold fresh meat twice a week, on market days... [1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, chapter I, in 'The House Behind the Cedars:]
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Butcher of an innocent child. [c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii]:]
Nouns inflected like butcher
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
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. See: Middle English Nouns '
bocher', English Nouns '
buck'.
Verbs referencing "butcher"
Italian Nouns
beccaio, Galician Nouns
buxeo, Zulu Nouns
ubhusha, Galician Nouns
buxeu.