英语词汇butchery的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	butchery
词源	butchery n. mid-15c., bocherie, "the trade of a butcher," from Old French bocherie "slaughter; a butcher's shop" (13c., Modern French boucherie), from bochier "a butcher" (see butcher (n.)). The meaning "barbarous killing" is from mid-15c. Entries linking to butchery butcher n. c. 1300, "one who slaughters animals for market," from Anglo-French boucher, from Old French bochier "butcher, executioner" (12c., Modern French boucher), probably literally "slaughterer of goats," from bouc "male goat," from Frankish bukk or some other Germanic source (see buck (n.1)) or Celtic bukkos "he-goat." Figurative sense of "brutal murderer, one who kills indiscriminately or cruelly" is attested from 1520s. Related: Butcherly. Old English had flæscmangere "butcher" ('flesh-monger'). updated on October 26, 2022
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butchery n.