Butch

/bʊt͡ʃ/ · adjective

Meaning

(originally Polari) Very masculine, with a masculine appearance or attitude..

Definitions by Sense

1. (originally Polari) Very masculine, with a masculine appearance or attitude.
2. Of a woman (usually lesbian), having a masculine appearance, or attitude.
3. (slang, LGBTQ, countable) A lesbian who appears masculine or acts in a masculine manner.
4. (nonstandard, intransitive) To work as a butcher.
5. (nonstandard, transitive) To slaughter (animals) and prepare (meat) for market.

Example Sentences

[…] Closeted men adopted feminine affect while butch men embraced traditional masculinity.

[…] butch men who had sex with effeminate queens. […]

There, look, Mr. Horne! Vada that great butch lucoddy!

Nor can I credit that a — to put it crudely — proud bisexual butch Italian — albeit one lonely, poor, emotional and without strong will — which Giovanni is shown to be in the earlier part of the book, should become, in a mere matter of months, and as the result of any happening, the venal hysterical fairy that he does.

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.

The process of appreciating a butch aesthetic may be even more complex for bisexual butch women. In contrast to lesbian butches who may date only within a butch-femme community, bisexual butch women may be more likely to […] In comparison to butch bisexual women, it may be easier for femme bisexual women to locate male and female dating partners […]

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.

"Faye got wicked buff and has a super butch haircut and it is hot as shit." "It's okay, babe. We can ogle her together."

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• butcher
• more butch
• butchest
• most butch
• butches
• butching
• butched

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