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Recent Examples of butch
Gershon’s Corky, lithe and tattooed, ended up being the stuff of butch lesbian dreams — which apparently held true offscreen as much as on.
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Caroline Framke,
Vulture,
8 June 2026
One of the dads, Wayne Maines, for example, ticks nearly every box of that butch stereotype.
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Leslie Felperin,
HollywoodReporter,
20 Mar. 2026
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.
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M. Gessen,
Mercury News,
27 Jan. 2026
There are still so few stories about butch women, transmasculine, genderqueer, or nonbinary bodies—the kind of bodies that have been called monstrous all our lives.
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Literary Hub,
22 Jan. 2026
Next year the more butch EX60 Cross Country model will arrive for a different vibe.
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Joel Feder,
The Drive,
21 Jan. 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.
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James Factora,
Them.,
21 Oct. 2025
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.
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Francisco Tijerina,
The Conversation,
24 July 2025
Maybe not as uniformly vivid as his sister, Bernadette — such a pretty name for such a tough broad, in Lea DeLaria’s priceless, super-butch performance — but vivid enough to be memorable.
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Marilyn Stasio,
Variety,
28 Apr. 2022
Caroline Framke,
Vulture,
8 June 2026
One of the dads, Wayne Maines, for example, ticks nearly every box of that butch stereotype.
—
Leslie Felperin,
HollywoodReporter,
20 Mar. 2026
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.
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M. Gessen,
Mercury News,
27 Jan. 2026
There are still so few stories about butch women, transmasculine, genderqueer, or nonbinary bodies—the kind of bodies that have been called monstrous all our lives.
—
Literary Hub,
22 Jan. 2026
Next year the more butch EX60 Cross Country model will arrive for a different vibe.
—
Joel Feder,
The Drive,
21 Jan. 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
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
Maybe not as uniformly vivid as his sister, Bernadette — such a pretty name for such a tough broad, in Lea DeLaria’s priceless, super-butch performance — but vivid enough to be memorable.
—
Marilyn Stasio,
Variety,
28 Apr. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for butch
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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.
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Hutton’s elegant-yet-tomboyish character spends the film in silks and trenches, with an iconic burgundy Bottega tucked beneath her arm.
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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%.
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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.
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No amount of macho beatdowns in the UFC cage matches on the White House lawn will make anyone forget Epstein’s depredations.
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While the two keep drinking and wait for a rare lunar event, old grievances, outrageous escapades, and macho rivalries explode to the surface.
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There is something stereotypically masculine about the kind of chest-pumping, overly stylish translations of your predecessors.
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In reality, Lewis says, men have a deep, wide range of feeling that encompasses both traditionally masculine and traditionally feminine aspects.
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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.
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From beginning to end, there’s a joyfulness and a boyish innocence to IOI’s new iteration of the character, which surprised me.
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Is there anything uniquely manly about being a good father?
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Another critic pointed out that Williams has been the victim of similar attacks calling her athletic build masculine or manly.
Adjective
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Cowboy hats, jeans, a lot of alcohol and bull riding combine into a special mix of hypermasculine rituals at Mexican rodeo shows.
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Jaripeo is a feature hybrid documentary that journeys to Michoacán’s hypermasculine rodeos.
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“Butch.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/butch. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.
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