Dialectal or informal pronunciation of 'butcher,' a person who prepares or sells meat.
From Old French 'boucher,' derived from 'bouc' (he-goat), since butchers originally worked with goat meat. The modern informal pronunciation 'butcha' represents natural vowel reduction in casual speech.
The shift from 'bouc' (goat) to 'butcher' shows how occupation names sometimes come from your primary material—like how 'baker' comes from the fact that bread was baked, not why they were called that initially.
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