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Originally Posted by Icelander
Well, the surname can mean 'sinner', 'fisherman' or 'angler'. Don't know why French uses the same word for sinners and fishermen, but perhaps they're really serious about the venial sin of lying about 'the one that got away'.
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As an aside, it's two separate words :)
pêcheur - with a "ê" (^ meaning it was originally pescheur), from lat. piscari, is a fisherman.
pécheur with a "é", from lat. peccator, is a sinner.
Although I do like your explanation :)