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# butch

«butch» in Mova's school dictionary: **Looking or acting tough, strong and traditionally manly** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (butch, butcher, butchest – rare); noun (a butch – slang)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (informal) Looking or acting tough, strong and traditionally manly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/butch/#m1)

2) (slang) A word some people use for a lesbian woman who dresses or acts in a traditionally masculine way; it can be a proud self-description, but used by others it can be rude or hurtful. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/butch/#m2)

3) (a name) Butch is also a nickname, as in the cowboy Butch Cassidy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/butch/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday talk, «a butch dog» or «a butch name» is tough-sounding. In stories and old westerns, Butch Cassidy was an American outlaw. Be careful: using it about a person can be teasing or unkind.

### examples

- That bulldog looks very butch. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/butch/#x1)
- He tried to look butch in his leather jacket. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/butch/#x2)
- Butch Cassidy was a famous train robber. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/butch/#x3)
- "Rex is a butch name for a puppy," laughed Dad. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/butch/#x4)
- Don't call people names to tease them. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/butch/#x5)

### note

Informal. Do not use it to tease people about how they look. «Butcher» (meat seller) is a different word.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «butch» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/butch/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.