0 (of a woman) looking or behaving like a man, or (of a man) being very strong with big muscles, and behaving in a traditionally male way
Their understanding hardly matches the 'butch' perception.
Butchers are called up to "butch," musicians are called up to play, and so on.
It may be the other way round, depending on which of those two organisations is the more butch.
However, if a woman displays male traits she is portrayed as mean, butch, and aggressive.
She was just, quite literally, the butch of my dreams.
A masculine person of either gender can be described as butch.
Daily applications of butch wax were used to make the short hair stand straight up from the head.
Her adept way of characterizing butch and femme characters in her writing set the standard for many novelists writing since the 1970s.