butch

See also: Butch

English

Etymology

Originally it was probably used as an abbreviation of butcher. Later, in the 1940s, the sense "masculine lesbian" was developed.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bʊtʃ/

• Audio (AU)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ʊtʃ

Adjective

butch (comparative butcher or more butch, superlative butchest or most butch)

1. (slang, originally Polari) Very masculine, with a masculine appearance or attitude.
   • 1967, Barry Took and Marty Feldmen, Round the Horne, spoken by Sandy (Kenneth Williams):

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

   • 1998, Kath Weston, Render Me, Gender Me: Lesbians Talk Sex, Class, Color, Nation, Studmuffins‎^[1], Columbia University Press, →ISBN:

     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.

Synonyms

• macho, manly, mannish, unfeminine, masc

Translations

of a man

• Dutch: macho (nl), mannelijk (nl)
• Finnish: miesmäinen (fi)
• French: hommasse (fr)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Polish: twardziel (pl)
• Swedish: manlig (sv), macho, manhaftig (sv)

Noun

butch (plural butches)

1. (slang, LGBT, countable) A lesbian who appears masculine or acts in a masculine manner.

Synonyms

• (masculine lesbian): bull dyke, dyke
• See also Thesaurus:female homosexual

Antonyms

• femme

Derived terms

• soft butch
• stone butch

Translations

masculine lesbian

• Danish: betonlebbe c
• Dutch: pot (nl) f
• Finnish: miesmäinen lesbo, rekkalesbo (fi)
• French: gouine (fr) f, (slang) hommasse (fr), camionneuse (fr) f
• Hebrew: בּוּצָ'ה f (bútcha)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: maschiaccio (it) m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: traktorlesbe (no) m or f

  Nynorsk: traktorlesbe f

• Swedish: truckflata (sv) c, butchflata c

Anagrams

• bucht

---

German

Etymology

From English butch.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [bʊt͡ʃ]

Adjective

butch (not comparable)

1. butch

Further reading

• “butch” in Duden online