butch

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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

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

“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

Yours sincerely, Dave Mitchell Now that I’m a free citizen again, I dig out my black sweater, look disgustedly at the butch haircut, and go out to mail my letter.

From It’s like this, cat by Neville, Emily