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