How to pronounce“butch”in English
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Definitions of “butch”
Very masculine, with a masculine appearance or attitude.
“There, look, Mr. Horne! Vada that great butch lucoddy!”
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.”
A lesbian who appears masculine or acts in a masculine manner.
“Coming out appeals to the narcissistic pleasure of presenting to another a finished image of ourselves, which they return to us in exactly the same form: [someone tells] you [they are] a bisexual butch, and you confirm it. But instead, it seems all too likely – especially, perhaps, for bisexuals, whose claims to identity always need that much more proof – that no such mirror-image will be returned.”
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.”
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