how to pronounce butch

/bʊtʃ/

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butch is pronounced in one syllable

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An example use of butch in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… broccoli and they were butch but tell …”

meanings of butch

adjective:

Very masculine, with a masculine appearance or attitude.

noun:

A lesbian who appears masculine or acts in a masculine manner.

name:

A male nickname.

butch frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word butch occurs in english on average 1.6 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2+ level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics butch can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that butch can be often used in the following areas:

1) leisure and entertainment;