butch

Very masculine, with a masculine appearance or attitude.

• There, look, Mr. Horne! Vada that great butch lucoddy!
• […] Closeted men adopted feminine affect while butch men embraced traditional masculinity.

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

• Then I started going out with different kinds of women, and I started feeling more like I wanted to be more butch. […] I feel much more butch than I feel femme.
• More of the rotten responses I receive about being a bisexual butch woman come from other bisexuals, particularly men, who don't want to deal with any woman who is not some Barbie doll standard of femininity.

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

• 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 s

To work as a butcher.intransitivenonstandard

• 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.nonstandardtransitive

• 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.