butch
adjective
[ bʊtʃ ]
• having an appearance or other qualities of a type traditionally seen as masculine.
• "a butch woman in a baseball cap"
Similar:
manly,
masculine,
all man,
virile,
red-blooded,
swashbuckling,
mannish,
manlike,
unfeminine,
unladylike,
Amazonian,
macho,
viraginous,
viragoish,
butch
noun
• a lesbian whose appearance and behaviour are seen as traditionally masculine.
Origin:
mid 19th century: originally US dialect, short for butch knife, in the sense ‘a butcher's knife’; the current senses date from the mid 20th century.
