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单词 butch
释义

butch

See also: Butch

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bʊt͡ʃ/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ʊtʃ

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
    • 1967, Barry Took and Marty Feldman, Round the Horne, spoken by Sandy (Kenneth Williams):
      There, look, Mr. Horne! Vada that great butch lucoddy!
    • 1979, Colin MacInnes, Out of the way: later essays:
      Nor can I credit that a — to put it crudely — proud bisexual butch Italian — albeit one lonely, poor, emotional and without strong will — which Giovanni is shown to be in the earlier part of the book, should become, in a mere matter of months, and as the result of any happening, the venal hysterical fairy that he does.
    • 1998, Weston, Kath, Render Me, Gender Me: Lesbians Talk Sex, Class, Color, Nation, Studmuffins, Columbia University Press, →ISBN:
      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.
    • 2007, Beth A. Firestein, Becoming Visible: Counseling Bisexuals Across the Lifespan, Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 305:
      The process of appreciating a butch aesthetic may be even more complex for bisexual butch women. In contrast to lesbian butches who may date only within a butch-femme community, bisexual butch women may be more likely to [] In comparison to butch bisexual women, it may be easier for femme bisexual women to locate male and female dating partners []
    • 2014, Naomi S Tucker, Bisexual Politics: Theories, Queries, and Visions, Routledge, →ISBN, page 186:
      More of the rotten responses I receive about being a bisexual butch woman come from other bisexuals, particularly men, who don't want to deal with any woman who is not some Barbie doll standard of femininity.
    • 2016, Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content (webcomic), Number 3154: Coupling:
      "Faye got wicked buff and has a super butch haircut and it is hot as shit." "It's okay, babe. We can ogle her together."

Translations

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.

Derived terms

  • butch queen
  • futch
  • soft butch
  • stone butch

Translations

Anagrams

  • bucht

French

Etymology

English butch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /butʃ/
  • (file)

Noun

butch f (plural butchs)

  1. a butch (masculine queer woman) (contrast fem)
    • 2001, Marie-Hélène Bourcier, Queer zones: politiques des identités sexuelles, des représentations et des savoirs:
      " [] un couple qui fonctionne requiert des individus dichotomiques qu'il s'agisse d'un homme et d'une femme ou bien d'une butch et d'une femme", Lilian Faderman, Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers, A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth Century.
    • 2005, Marie-Hélène Bourcier, Sexpolitiques: queer zones 2, La Fabrique éditions:
      Une butch qui n'aurait aucune sexualité en laisserait-elle tomber pour autant: la chemise, le monocle, les Doc Martens, []
    • 2007, Eli Flory, Ces femmes qui aiment les femmes, Archipel, →ISBN:
      Une butch n'est pas une fem, qui n'est pas une lipstick. [] À l'origine, butch se disait aussi bien pour un homme que pour une femme qui accusait une apparence « très masculine ». Le butch man est l'homme  []
      (please add an English translation of this quote)
    • 2007, Les inrockuptibles:
      On me traitait comme ça, comme une butch. Mais la plupart des femmes avec [] Mais il me traitait comme une femme. C'était totalement []
    • 2008, Claude Guillon, Je chante le corps critique: Les usages politiques du corps
      [] à jouer tel rôle social de sexe, en manifestent néanmoins ardemment le désir ou en arborent les signes extérieurs de manière la plus ostentatoire possible. Une butch américaine déclare : « Je n'ai jamais renoncé à la femme qui est en moi. »
    • 2012, Gaëtan Duchateau; Florent Guerlain, Dernier inventaire avant le mariage pour tous, Stock, →ISBN, page 40:
      En 1995, Josiane Balasko apparaît sous les traits d'une butch (voir Argot) de compétition dans Gazon maudit, qu'elle a []
      (please add an English translation of this quote)
    • 2013, Denise Mina, La fin de la saison des guêpes, Le Masque, →ISBN:
      Cette femme n'avait rien d'une butch, mais c'était un look que les lesbiennes ne suivaient plus.
      (please add an English translation of this quote)

German

Etymology

Borrowed from English butch.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [bʊt͡ʃ]
  • (file)

Adjective

butch (strong nominative masculine singular butcher, not comparable)

  1. butch

Declension

Further reading

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