To clarify, Fleischhacker is a legitimate translation of "butcher", but only in a figurative sense: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/slaughterer#Translations http

To clarify, Fleischhacker is a legitimate translation of "butcher", but only in a figurative sense: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/slaughterer#Translations https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/slaughterer#Translations I'm guessing that the original author was saying that it doesn't literally refer to a person who cuts meat for a living (like Metzger), which is true. However, it's still a sort of funny name for a person in that profession to have.