butch
adj/bʊt͡ʃ/
Etymology
Originally, it was probably used as an abbreviation of butcher. Later, in the 1940s, the sense of “masculine lesbian” developed.
Definitions
Very masculine, with a masculine appearance or attitude.
- There, look, Mr. Horne! Vada that great butch lucoddy!
- […] Closeted men adopted feminine affect while butch men embraced traditional masculinity.
Of a woman (usually lesbian), having a masculine appearance, or attitude.
- Then I started going out with different kinds of women, and I started feeling more like I wanted to be more butch. […] I feel much more butch than I feel femme.
- More of the rotten responses I receive about being a bisexual butch woman come from other bisexuals, particularly men, who don't want to deal with any woman who is not some Barbie doll standard of femininity.
A lesbian who appears masculine or acts in a masculine manner.
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To work as a butcher.
- Sax thouſand years are near hand fled, / Sin’ I was to the butching bred, / And mony a ſcheme in vain’s been laid, / To ſtap or ſcar me; / Till ane Hornbook’s ta’en up the trade, / And faith, he’ll waur me.
- Butch, to practice the trade of a butcher, to kill.
To slaughter (animals) and prepare (meat) for market.
- Take thy huge offal and white liver hence, / Or in a twinkling of this true-blue steel / I shall be butching thee from nape to rump.
- “Couldn’t Ali butch the cow, please?” said Bill, whose ears were ever open when the question of food was raised.
A male nickname.
The neighborhood
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA