butch
Example Sentences
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With their flamboyant costumes and choreography, the group became a pop culture phenomenon, targeting disco's large gay audience with camp fantasy characters of butch builders, bikers, cowboys and soldiers.
From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026
"My sexuality has no bearing on whether I look girly, or whether I'm butch or whatever I present myself to be," she said.
From BBC ● Feb. 15, 2026
They describe themselves as butch in appearance — short-cropped hair, button-down Oxfords.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 2, 2024
So, is it possible to butch up vegetables?
From Salon ● Feb. 3, 2024
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