Etymology

From Old French bouchier ‎(“goat slaughterer”), from bouc ‎(“goat”), from Late Latin buccus ‎(“male goat”) (first recorded in the Salic Laws), from Frankish *buk ‎(“male goat”), from Proto-Germanic *bukkaz, *bukkô ‎(“male goat”), from Proto-Indo-European *bhuǵ- ‎(“he-goat, ram”).

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