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Boucher

/bu.ʃe/

proper noun/bu.ʃe/

a surname, Boucher, transferred from the common noun or originating as an occupation, equivalent to English Butcher

Surname for a butcher (“boucher”), from Old French bochier (“butcher”), from boc (“he-goat”), from Frankish *bukk (“buck”, literally “butcher”). See also English butcher, buck.