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You can make 13 words from butch according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

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Definitions and meaning of butch

butch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bʊt͡ʃ/
• Rhymes: -ʊtʃ

Etymology 1

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

Adjective

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

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

   Synonyms: macho, manly, mannish, unfeminine, masc

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Noun

butch (plural butches)

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

   Synonyms: bull dyke, dyke; see also Thesaurus:female homosexual

   Antonym: femme

   • 1997, Bi Academic Intervention, Bisexual Imaginary: Representation, Identity, and Desire, A&C Black (→ISBN), page 30, quoting Jo Eadie:

     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.

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Etymology 2

Back-formation from butcher.

Verb

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

1. (nonstandard, intransitive) To work as a butcher.
2. (nonstandard, transitive) To slaughter (animals) and prepare (meat) for market.

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Anagrams

• bucht

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English butch.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /butʃ/

Noun

butch f (plural butchs)

1. a butch (masculine queer woman) (contrast fem)

German

Etymology

Borrowed from English butch.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [bʊt͡ʃ]

Adjective

butch (indeclinable)

1. butch

Synonyms

• butchig

Further reading

• “butch” in Duden online
• “butch” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache