bocher – Middle English noun declension

Middle English noun forms of bocher

Noun: bocher
Sg.bocher
Pl.bochers

Genitive

Dative

Sample Sentences

  • ¶ Bakers. Bochers. and Breuſters monye. / Maſons. Minours. and mony oþer craftes. (Many bakers, butchers, and brewers, / masons, miners, and many other professions.) [c. 1370, [William Langland], “[Prologue]”, in Petrus plowmon (V, A-text), Worcestershire, published c. 1390, folio 395, recto; republished as Bodleian Library MS. Eng. poet. a. 1, Oxford: Digital Bodleian, 10 January 2019:]

Nouns inflected like bocher

schimeringe, synger, serche, sengle, snoute, saucer, sauter, sapour, saphir, sachel, sculle, scrape, scrowe, scisme, sclate, schyfe, schyve, schole, schere, schave, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French bochier, bouchier, from bouc (“buck”); compare bukke.

Verbs referencing "bocher"

English Nouns butcher.

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