Etymology

boucherie

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Today it means: A social event at which people gather to butcher and make food from an animal, especially a pig. Full definition →

French boucherie ← Cajun French boucherie
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The story

  1. Cajun French · borrowed fromboucherie
  2. French · borrowed fromboucherie“butchershop”
  3. English todayboucherie

From French boucherie (“butchershop”), and in American usage (for the event), from Cajun French boucherie.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.