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butanoic acid |
butanol |
butanone |
butat |
butazolidin |
butch
| butcher
| butcher bird
| butcher block
| butcher board
| butcher cumberland
butch
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun butch has 1 sense
- butch(n = noun.person) dike, dyke - (slang) offensive term for a lesbian who is noticeably masculine; Array is a kind of gay woman, lesbian, tribade
Derived form adjective butch2
Adjective butch has 2 senses
- butch(s = adj.all) macho - used of men; markedly masculine in appearance or manner; Array
- butch(s = adj.all) Array - (of male or female homosexuals) characterized by stereotypically male traits or appearance; Array Derived form noun butch1
CIDE DICTIONARY
butch, adj.
- markedly masculine in appearance or manner; -- used of men. [WordNet 1.5]
- same as lesbian. [WordNet 1.5]
butch, n.
a lesbian who is noticeably masculine. [WordNet 1.5]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
butch, adj. & n. sl.
--adj. masculine; tough-looking.
--n.
1 (often attrib.) a a mannish woman. b a mannish lesbian.
2 a tough, usu. muscular, youth or man.
--adj. masculine; tough-looking.
--n.
1 (often attrib.) a a mannish woman. b a mannish lesbian.
2 a tough, usu. muscular, youth or man.
Etymology
perh. abbr. of BUTCHER
THESAURUS
butch
AC-DC, amazon, amphierotic, androgyne, auntie, autoerotic, bi-guy, bisexed, bisexual, bull dyke, catamite, chicken, deviant, dyke, effeminate, fag, faggot, fairy, femme, flit, fricatrice, fruit, gay, gunsel, homo, homoerotic, homophile, homosexual, homosexualist, hoyden, invert, lesbian, mannish, nance, pansy, pathic, perverted, punk, queen, queer, romp, sapphic, sapphist, tomboy, transvestite, tribade, tribadistic, virago
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