bocher

bocher (plural bocherim)

1. Alternative form of bochur.

• bochier, boucher, buccher, bucher
• bochere, bocheyr, boochier, boscher (Late Middle English)

Borrowed from Old French bochier, bouchier, from bouc (“buck”); compare bukke.

• IPA^(key): /buˈt͡ʃeːr/, /ˈbut͡ʃər/

bocher (plural bochers)

1. A butcher (meat slaughterer and retailer)
2. (figuratively) A killer or murderer.

• bocherie

• English: butcher
  • → Hindi: बूचड़ (būcaṛ)
  • → Swahili: bucha
  • → Urdu: بُوچَڑ (būcaṛ)
• Scots: butcher

• “bọ̄chē̆r, bǒchē̆r, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.