different between mutch vs butch

English

Etymology

From Middle Dutch mutse, from amutse, from Late Latin almucia (“almuce”); compare amice, mozzetta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?t??/
• Rhymes: -?t?

  Homophones: much

Noun

mutch (plural mutches)

1. (now rare, Scotland) A nightcap (hat worn to bed). [from 15th c.]
2. A linen or muslin hat, especially one of a type once commonly worn by elderly women and young children. [from 16th c.]
   • 1901, Ralph Connor, The Man From Glengarry, 2007, Echo Library, page 66,

     But of all the congregation, none enjoyed the singing more than the dear old women who sat in the front seats near the pulpit, their quiet old faces looking so sweet and pure under their snow-white “mutches.”

   • 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song, Polygon 2006 (A Scots Quair), p. 15,

     And […] off to the asylum they hurled the daftie, he went with a nurse's mutch on his head and he put his head out of the back of the waggon and said Cockadoodledoo! to some school bairns […]

   • 1986, Sheila MacGregor, The folktales: 5: Silver and Gold, Ewan McColl, Peggy Seeger, Till Doomsday in the Afternoon: The Folklore of a Family of Scots Travelers, the Stewarts of Blairgowrie, page 74,

     So Silver and Gold gets all prepared and ready, and he says, “Och, that?s awfae-lookin? things on your heids”, he says. “Tak? they mutches aff. You?ll no? need them now because your faither?ll no? see you.” So they tak? the mutches aff their heid and they throw them awa?.

Derived terms

• night mutch
• bonet mutch
• double mutch
• under-mutch
• hair-mutch
• mutchless
• kell mutch
• laced mutch

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