Emboweler
/ɪmˈbaʊ.əl.ər/noun
A person who removes the bowels or internal organs from a body.
Did you know?Emboweler is built on the same Old French/Latin root as *bowel*, ultimately from Latin *botellus* meaning “little sausage,” a surprisingly earthy source for such a macabre job-title.
Etymological Timeline
Latin
Latin
botellus
“little sausage”
Old French
OF
boel
“intestine, bowel”
Middle English
English
embowelen
“to remove the entrails; to disembowel”
Modern English
English
emboweler
“a person who disembowels”