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Butch is an informal word describing someone, or something, that looks or acts in a strong, tough way that people usually connect with men — 'a butch haircut', 'a butch stance'. It's often used about women who dress or act this way, and within the LGBTQ community, some women use 'butch' to describe their own style with pride. Because of that history, it's a word to use gently — fine when someone uses it about themselves, but it can land badly coming from someone else.
陽剛的、man 的（口語，常形容女性的中性/陽剛風格；同志圈中類似「T」的角色）
原始詞典資料6 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Butchname
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A male nickname.
butchadj詞源 1/bʊt͡ʃ/
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Very masculine, with a masculine appearance or attitude.
- There, look, Mr. Horne! Vada that great butch lucoddy!
- Nor can I credit that a — to put it crudely — proud bisexual butch Italian — albeit one lonely, poor, emotional and without strong will — which Giovanni is shown to be in the earlier part of the book, should become, in a mere matter of months, and as the result of any happening, the venal hysterical fairy that he does.
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Of a woman (usually lesbian), having a masculine appearance, or attitude.
- Then I started going out with different kinds of women, and I started feeling more like I wanted to be more butch. […] I feel much more butch than I feel femme.
- The process of appreciating a butch aesthetic may be even more complex for bisexual butch women. In contrast to lesbian butches who may date only within a butch-femme community, bisexual butch women may be more likely to […] In comparison to butch bisexual women, it may be easier for femme bisexual women to locate male and female dating partners […]
butchnoun詞源 1/bʊt͡ʃ/
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slangA lesbian who appears masculine or acts in a masculine manner.
- Coming out appeals to the narcissistic pleasure of presenting to another a finished image of ourselves, which they return to us in exactly the same form: [someone tells] you [they are] a bisexual butch, and you confirm it. But instead, it seems all too likely – especially, perhaps, for bisexuals, whose claims to identity always need that much more proof – that no such mirror-image will be returned.
butchverb詞源 2/bʊt͡ʃ/
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To work as a butcher.
- Sax thouſand years are near hand fled, / Sin’ I was to the butching bred, / And mony a ſcheme in vain’s been laid, / To ſtap or ſcar me; / Till ane Hornbook’s ta’en up the trade, / And faith, he’ll waur me.
- Butch, to practice the trade of a butcher, to kill.
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To slaughter (animals) and prepare (meat) for market.
- Take thy huge offal and white liver hence, / Or in a twinkling of this true-blue steel / I shall be butching thee from nape to rump.
- “Couldn’t Ali butch the cow, please?” said Bill, whose ears were ever open when the question of food was raised.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。