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butanoic acid | butanol | butanone | butat | butazolidin | butch | butcher | butcher bird | butcher block | butcher board | butcher cumberland

butch

 : 
Adjective, Noun

CIDE DICTIONARY

butchadj. 
  •  markedly masculine in appearance or manner; -- used of men.  [WordNet 1.5]
  •  same as lesbian.  [WordNet 1.5]
butchn. 
     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.

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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