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cutch

English

Noun

cutch (usually uncountable, plural cutches)

  1. (nautical) a preservative, made from catechu gum boiled in water, used to prolong the life of a sail or net
  2. Alternative form of cultch

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butch

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /b?t?/
  • Rhymes: -?t?

Adjective

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

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

Synonyms

  • macho, manly, mannish, unfeminine, masc

Translations

Noun

butch (plural butches)

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

Synonyms

  • (masculine lesbian): bull dyke, dyke
  • See also Thesaurus:female homosexual

Antonyms

  • femme

Derived terms

  • soft butch
  • stone butch

Translations

Anagrams

  • bucht

French

Etymology

English butch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /but?/

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  []
    • 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 []
    • 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.

German

Etymology

From English butch.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [b?t??]

Adjective

butch (not comparable)

  1. butch

Declension

Further reading

  • “butch” in Duden online

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