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butcher
c.1300, from Anglo-Norm.
boucher,
from O.Fr.
bouchier
"slaughterer of goats," from
bouc
"male goat," from Frank.
*bukk
(see
buck
). The verb is recorded from 1562. Figurative sense of "brutal murderer" is attested from 1529.
