butch

• POS: Adjective, Noun

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.

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