butch up

English

Verb

butch up (third-person singular simple present butches up, present participle butching up, simple past and past participle butched up)

1. (intransitive) To become more butch (masculine).
2. (transitive) To make more butch (masculine).
   • 1977-1980, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure

     If I had hormones to lower my voice & butch up my face with a few whiskers, I don't believe I would suffer the anxiety of passing.