| 词汇 | butcher |
| 词源 | butcher. There is a story of a 13th-century queen of France wedding a butcher, so esteemed was the trade at the time. Our word butcher does come to us from the French bocher, which derives from boc, “goat,” all butchers originally having been slaughterers of goats before bloodying their hands with other animals. |
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