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Butch

Butch

See also: butch

English

Proper noun

Butch

A male nickname

butch

butch

See also: Butch

English

Adjective

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

(slang, originally Polari) Very masculine, with a masculine appearance or attitude.
- 1998, Kath Weston, Render Me, Gender Me: Lesbians Talk Sex, Class, Color, Nation, Studmuffins
  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

Translations

of a man

Dutch: macho (nl), mannelijk (nl)
Finnish: miesmäinen (fi)
French: hommasse (fr)

Polish: twardziel (pl)
Swedish: manlig (sv), macho, manhaftig (sv)

Noun

butch ‎(plural butches)

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

Derived terms

Synonyms

(masculine lesbian): bulldyke, dyke
See also Wikisaurus:female homosexual

Antonyms

femme

Translations

masculine lesbian

Dutch: pot (nl) f
Finnish: miesmäinen ****
French: gouine (fr) f, (slang) hommasse (fr), camionneuse (fr) f
Italian: maschiaccio (it) m

Norwegian:

Bokmål: traktorlesbe (no) m, f

Nynorsk: traktorlesbe f
Swedish: truckflata (sv) c, butchflata c

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