Boucher
See also: boucher
Translingual edit
Proper noun edit
Boucher
- A botanical plant name author abbreviation for botanist Jules Armand Guillaume Boucher de Crèvecoeur (1757-1844).
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Etymology edit
Borrowed from French Boucher. Doublet of Butcher.
Proper noun edit
Boucher (plural Bouchers)
- A surname from French.
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French edit
Etymology edit
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.
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Proper noun edit
Boucher ?
- a surname, Boucher, transferred from the common noun or originating as an occupation, equivalent to English Butcher
Descendants edit
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from French Boucher.
Proper noun edit
Boucher m or f by sense
- a surname from French
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Etymology edit
Proper noun edit
Boucher m or f by sense
- a surname from French