butch

1. (slang, LGBTQ, countable) A lesbian who appears masculine or acts in a masculine manner.Examples: "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."Synonyms: bull dyke, dykeAntonyms: femmecountableslang

1. (nonstandard, intransitive) To work as a butcher.Examples: "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."; "And sometimes he also displayed by the side of his brooms, some spare-ribs after the killing of a neighbour’s pig—but there was no one in Black Moss who was a regular purveyor of any sort of meat. Certain there were indeed who “butched a bit noo an’ then,” but they looked for their meat to a butcher who journeyed to them from afar twice a week in the winter, and three times in the season."intransitivenonstandard

2. (nonstandard, transitive) To slaughter (animals) and prepare (meat) for market.Examples: "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."; "I can vouch that it is in regular use in Clitheroe and the neighbouring district, where such expressions as “I butched three sheep yesterday,” or “He used to be a farmer, but has now gone into the butching business,” are very frequently heard."nonstandardtransitive