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English word butch comes from Malayalam buccus, Late Latin buccus, and later Old French bouchier (Butcher.)

buccus (Malayalam)

buccus (Late Latin)

bouc (Old French)

bouchier (Old French)

Butcher.

bocher (Middle English)

butcher (English)

(transitive) To kill brutally.. (transitive) To ruin (something), often to the point of defamation.. (transitive) To slaughter (animals) and prepare (meat) for market. (Cockney rhyming slang, from butcher's hook) A look.. (figurative) A brutal or indiscriminate killer.. (informal, obsolete) A person who sells candy, drinks, etc. in theatres, trains, circuses, etc.. A person who prepares and [...]

butch (English)

(slang, originally, _, Polari) Very masculine, with a masculine appearance or attitude. (slang, LGBT, countable) A lesbian who appears masculine or acts in a masculine manner.

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