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/
Audio (AU) (file) - Rhymes: -ʊtʃ
Adjective
butch (comparative butcher or more butch, superlative butchest or most butch)
- (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
of a man
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Noun
butch (plural butches)
- (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
masculine lesbian
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Anagrams
- bucht
French
Etymology
English butch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /butʃ/
Audio (file)
Noun
butch f (plural butchs)
- 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 […]
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- 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 […]
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- 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.
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- 2001, Marie-Hélène Bourcier, Queer zones: politiques des identités sexuelles, des représentations et des savoirs:
German
Etymology
Borrowed from English butch.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [bʊt͡ʃ]
Audio (file)
Adjective
butch (strong nominative masculine singular butcher, not comparable)
- butch
Declension
Positive forms of butch (uncomparable)
number & gender | singular | plural | |||
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masculine | feminine | neuter | all genders | ||
predicative | er ist butch | sie ist butch | es ist butch | sie sind butch | |
strong declension (without article) | nominative | butcher | butche | butches | butche |
genitive | butchen | butcher | butchen | butcher | |
dative | butchem | butcher | butchem | butchen | |
accusative | butchen | butche | butches | butche | |
weak declension (with definite article) | nominative | der butche | die butche | das butche | die butchen |
genitive | des butchen | der butchen | des butchen | der butchen | |
dative | dem butchen | der butchen | dem butchen | den butchen | |
accusative | den butchen | die butche | das butche | die butchen | |
mixed declension (with indefinite article) | nominative | ein butcher | eine butche | ein butches | (keine) butchen |
genitive | eines butchen | einer butchen | eines butchen | (keiner) butchen | |
dative | einem butchen | einer butchen | einem butchen | (keinen) butchen | |
accusative | einen butchen | eine butche | ein butches | (keine) butchen |
Further reading
- “butch” in Duden online
- “butch” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache