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butch
adjective- overtly masculine US, 1936
- “And when we got into bed, that tough butch number–he turned over on his stomach and I–...” a score had told me about a very masculine young man I had seen on the streets. — John Rechy, City of Night, p. 59, 1963
- [V]ada [observe] that great butch lucoddy [body]. — Barry Took and Marty Feldman, Round The Horne, 25 June 1967
- I can remember when, years back, they shunted you through the side door, admitting only those who appeared “butch enough.” — John Francis Hunter, The Gay Insider, p. 74, 1971
- We wore blue jeans, tight T-shirts. We were all so butch, man, and we were proud. — John Rechy, The Sexual Outlaw, p. 69, 1977
- [T]hey were much too butch pour moi, sister[.] — the cast of “Aspects of Love”, Prince of Wales Theatre, Palare (Boy Dancer Talk) for Beginners, 1989–92
- She used to be quite butch when she first came in here, but that was back in the year blob. — James Gardiner, Who’s a Pretty Boy Then?, p. 123, 1997
- Eleanor didn’t wear thongs, she wore men’s underwear like a normal butch girl. — Michelle Tea, Rent Girl, p. 217, 2004
- fulfilling the masculine role in a male or female homosexual relationship US, 1941
Originally applied to male and female homosexuals, but later predominantly to lesbians. - — Donald Webster Cory and John P. LeRoy, The Homosexual and His Society, p. 262, 1963: “A lexicon of homosexual slang”
- — Florida Legislative Investigation Committee (Johns Committee), Homosexuality and Citizenship in Florida, 1964: “Glossary of homosexual terms and deviate acts”
- — The Guild Dictionary of Homosexual Terms, p. 6, 1965
- I had to run out to catch the end of the Sunday-afternoon-Saturday-night recover bout at Julius’–where the oldest college sophojmores in the world gather and everyone still pretends to be so butch that she just dropped in famished for one of those greasy hamburgers. — Screw, p. 15, 22 December 1969
- In spite of the fact that butch was not a friendly designation, it was, for the most part, adopted by the lesbian peoples. — Monique Wittig and Sande Zeig, Lesbian People, p. 23, 1979
- Darling, there’s nothing I love more than knowing some big butch number fancies my arse. Except, perhaps letting him have it. — Simon Napier-Bell, Black Vinyl White Powder, p. 302, 2001
- heterosexual US
- — Anon., The Gay Girl’s Guide, p. 4, 1949
- unafraid, unabashed UK
A nuance of the “overtly masculine” sense used in contemporary gay society. - — Attitude, p. 60, July 2003: “New palare lexicon”
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