butch

Example Sentences

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Over-the-top, camp and butch, with heavy makeup, big hair and large gestures, the season's most flamboyant, matron-like men put on their drawers to tread the boards and make everything go pear-shaped.

From BBC • Dec. 22, 2025

So, is it possible to butch up vegetables?

From Salon • Feb. 3, 2024

There wasn’t appreciation at the time for the old gay community, especially the butch femme community, where many butches passed as men to save their lives and be who they were with their partners.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 28, 2023

“I read ‘Stone Butch Blues’ when I was 17, and it was the first time I saw anything resembling butch identity.

From New York Times • Jun. 23, 2023

Besides I shouted so las’ dight that I cudd’t talk butch eddy how!”

From Within Prison Walls being a narrative during a week of voluntary confinement in the state prison at Auburn, New York by Osborne, Thomas Mott