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butch

1. noun, slang A pejorative term likening a doctor to a butcher. I'll never go to that butch again, not since he misdiagnosed my infection and I wound up in the ER! If that butch says we have to amputate my hand, then, yes, I want a second opinion! Honestly, I don't know how a butch like him didn't fail out of med school.

2. noun, slang A person who is masculine in appearance or sensibility. Typically used of lesbians and gay men who exhibit such traits. Some lesbians describe themselves as butches, some describe themselves as femmes, and others eschew labels altogether. Julie always dates butches. A: "Eh, he's kind of a butch—not really my type." B: "I know, you've always liked the skinny pretty boys."

3. adjective, slang Describing a person who is masculine in appearance or sensibility. Typically used of lesbians and gay men who exhibit such traits. Everyone Julie dates is butch. I'm sorry, but Luke's my best friend, and I know the butch, lumberjack vibe is not going to win him over. A: "You've never been a girly-girl, even before you came out." B: "Yeah, I always leaned into the butch aesthetic, huh?"

butch

(bʊtʃ)

1. n. a physician. (Derogatory. From butcher.) The butch at the infirmary was no help at all.

2. mod. virile and masculine. (In a homosexual context.) Really, Clare. How butch!

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References in periodicals archive

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Of course, Uncle Butch wasn't my uncle; he was Grandpa's uncle, or, rather, great-uncle, which meant that he was some distance removed from me.

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He was pulled away on business before I got an answer, but Butch later put that question into focus.

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"Butch already knows what Mayor wants or doesn't want.

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"You tell us what you need and we'll provide a solution," Butch pledges.

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Butch was where he nearly always could be found, at his work bench in the back of the RNT show room, tuning and assembling calls.

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Nicknamed after the thick-furred, cotton-white animal that roams the North Pole, the 6-foot-11 Butch unloaded 40 points and grabbed 31 rebounds to send the Bolts coaching staff in a spin and put on hold the phone call to bring out NBA veteran Darnell Jackson from the shadows.

Butch leads Meralco past Air21

Independent oil and gas company Faroe Petroleum, which is focused on exploration, appraisal and production opportunities in the Atlantic margin, the North Sea and Norway, on Monday announced the spudding of the first of two back-to back-wells in Licence PL405/PL405B, the Butch East exploration well 8/10-5S (Faroe 15%).

Faroe Petroleum announces spudding of Centrica operated Butch East exploration well in Norwegian North Sea

I turned around and saw Butch standing there, glaring at me.

Getting shirty was so Butch

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Persistence: All Ways Butch and Femme

Fireworks can be a lot of fun, Butch, but they can also be very dangerous.

The fireworks show

Keren Lehavot from the VA Puget Sound Health Care System in Seattle, USA and her collaborators revealed that women who are more butch report more abuse in childhood, particularly physical and emotional neglect, while women who identify as femme, and have a more feminine appearance, report more adult sexual assaults.

Lesbian and bisexual women at greater risk of abuse