butch

Of a lesbian (or any woman), having a masculine appearance, or attitude.

There, look, Mr. Horne! Vada that great butch lucoddy!

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.

A lesbian who appears masculine or acts in a masculine manner.

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.

To work as a butcher.

Sax thouſand years are near hand fled, / Sin’ I was to the butching bred, / And mony a ſcheme in vain’s been laid, / To ſtap or ſcar me; / Till ane Hornbook’s ta’en up the trade, / And faith, he’ll waur me.

Butch, to practice the trade of a butcher, to kill.

To slaughter (animals) and prepare (meat) for market.

Take thy huge offal and white liver hence, / Or in a twinkling of this true-blue steel / I shall be butching thee from nape to rump.

“Couldn’t Ali butch the cow, please?” said Bill, whose ears were ever open when the question of food was raised.