butch

adjective

Definition of butchnext
as in tomboyish

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Recent Examples of butch Over the past 3 ½ years, the YouTube show has added some new characters, including Burrita’s mom and an on-and-off love interest, a butch lesbian wolf. — Francisco Tijerina, The Conversation, 24 July 2025 Good was in a relationship with a woman, and her partner, who is butch, spoke impertinently to an ICE officer, so there, Good wasn’t your average white mother after all. — M. Gessen, Mercury News, 27 Jan. 2026 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. — CBS News, 1 July 2026 In addition to the co-star of I Saw the TV Glow, there’s also Margaret Cho (playing the hot older butch girlfriend to Haven’s more femme character), Dominique Jackson, Tomás Matos, Katy O’Brian, and more. — James Factora, Them., 21 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for butch
Recent Examples of Synonyms for butch
  1. tomboyish
  2. Amazonian
  3. macho
  4. masculine
  5. boyish
  6. manly
  7. hypermasculine
Adjective
  • Embrace those tomboyish vibes with a coordinated set like Bella Hadid's powder-blue look, or give them a fashion-forward twist by pairing them with a statement top like Palmer.
    — Maggie Kreienberg, PEOPLE, 22 June 2026
  • Both those films centered on women whose grim worlds were closing in on them — a tomboyish auto mechanic in Closeness; a nurse and the frontline friend who turns on her in Beanpole.
    — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 13 May 2026
Definition of tomboyish
Adjective
  • Buyers surveyed over the last several weeks have offered a range of projections for the coming NFL season, with some shops anticipating a more modest overall gain for in-game deliveries (+3%) while others suggesting that Big Data will swell the TV numbers by an Amazonian +8%.
    — Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 22 Aug. 2025
  • The artist, whose name is Luis Alfonso Palacios II, wore brown cowboy boots made with Amazonian fish leather while astride a horse at a 150-acre, 125-year-old ranch and rodeo arena in Lebanon, Tennessee.
    — Marcus K. Dowling, The Tennessean, 21 Aug. 2025
Definition of Amazonian
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  • By the end of the 1970s, the band and movemenet were losing goodwill, loathed by both the hip disco cognoscenti and a reactionary macho counterinsurgence that culminated in the vinyl furnace at Disco Demolition Night in Chicago.
    — Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 1 July 2026
  • No amount of macho beatdowns in the UFC cage matches on the White House lawn will make anyone forget Epstein’s depredations.
    — Maureen Dowd, Mercury News, 18 June 2026
Definition of macho
Adjective
  • Willis was the lead singer, and when all the performers took on stereotypically masculine personas, he became known for playing the cop.
    — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 1 July 2026
  • Upon opening the package, the fragrances don't announce themselves with the hyper-masculine aggression of a locker-room body spray.
    — Tiana Randall, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
Definition of masculine
Adjective
  • Trying to shed ‘nice-guy tendencies’ Jeff Whittington stands in front of the room, flashes a boyish smile, and prepares to be lambasted.
    — Rob Picheta, CNN Money, 27 June 2026
  • In those pages, Fiedler dared to argue that many of America’s boyish and putatively innocent classics are in fact fantasies of interracial, homosexual romance.
    — Becca Rothfeld, New Yorker, 1 June 2026
Definition of boyish
Adjective
  • Is there anything uniquely manly about being a good father?
    — Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 19 June 2026
  • Another critic pointed out that Williams has been the victim of similar attacks calling her athletic build masculine or manly.
    — Mary Whitfill Roeloffs, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026
Definition of manly
Adjective
  • Cowboy hats, jeans, a lot of alcohol and bull riding combine into a special mix of hypermasculine rituals at Mexican rodeo shows.
    — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 17 Mar. 2026
  • Jaripeo is a feature hybrid documentary that journeys to Michoacán’s hypermasculine rodeos.
    — Matthew Carey, Deadline, 12 Mar. 2026
Definition of hypermasculine

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“Butch.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/butch. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.

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