There, look, Mr. Horne! Vada that greatbutch lucoddy!
1979, Colin MacInnes,Out of the way: later essays:
Nor can I credit that a — to put it crudely — proud bisexualbutch 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.
1998, Kath Weston,Render Me, Gender Me: Lesbians Talk Sex, Class, Color, Nation, Studmuffins[2], Columbia University Press,→ISBN:
Then I started going out with different kinds of women, and I started feeling more likeI wanted to be morebutch.[…] I feel much morebutch than I feel femme.
2007, Beth A. Firestein,Becoming Visible: Counseling Bisexuals Across the Lifespan, Columbia University Press,→ISBN, page305:
The process of appreciating abutch aesthetic may be even more complex for bisexualbutch women. In contrast to lesbian butches who may date only within a butch-femme community, bisexualbutch women may be more likely to[…] In comparison tobutch bisexual women, it may be easier for femme bisexual women to locate male and female dating partners[…]
2014, Naomi S Tucker,Bisexual Politics: Theories, Queries, and Visions, Routledge,→ISBN, page186:
More of the rotten responses I receive about being a bisexualbutch woman come from other bisexuals, particularly men, who don't want to deal with any woman who is not some Barbie doll standard of femininity.
1997, Bi Academic Intervention,Bisexual Imaginary: Representation, Identity, and Desire, A&C Black (→ISBN), page 30, quoting Jo Eadie:
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 bisexualbutch, 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.
Sax thouſand years are near hand fled, / Sin’ I was to thebutching 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.
[1846,John Trotter Brockett, W[illiam] E[dward] Brockett,A Glossary of North Country Words, with Their Etymology, and Affinity to Other Languages; and Occasional Notices of Local Customs and Popular Superstitions, 3rd edition, volume I, Newcastle upon Tyne: Emerson Charnley,[…]; andSimpkin, Marshall, & Co., London,page75:
Butch, to practice the trade of a butcher, to kill.]
1864,[Arthur Robins], “Job Redcar’s Suspicion”, inBlack Moss. A Tale by a Tarn., volume II, London:Richard Bentley,[…],page78:
And sometimes he also displayed by the side of his brooms, some spare-ribs after the killing of a neighbour’s pig—but there was no one in Black Moss who was a regular purveyor of any sort of meat. Certain there were indeed who “butched a bit noo an’ then,” but they looked for their meat to a butcher who journeyed to them from afar twice a week in the winter, and three times in the season.
1875,John H[oward] Nodal, George Milner,A Glossary of the Lancashire Dialect, Manchester: ([…][F]or the Literary Club by)Alexander Ireland & Co.,[…]. London: Trübner & Co.,[…],page63:
BUTCH,v. to kill animals for food. as abutcher does. /Coll. Use. 1875. He use’t to be a farmer, but hebutches neaw.
From out his red and sawdust shop / This butcher, born to chepe and chop, / Surveys without a trace of grief / Perambulating tombs of beef. /[…] / It’s probable we never shall / Convince him that an animal / Is not mere layers of lean and fat; / He may havebutched too much for that.
1905 November 4, Allison Yewell, “Geographical Nonsense”, inThe Saturday Evening Post, volume178, number19, Philadelphia, Pa.,page19:
A butcher whobutched in Des Moines, / As his customers passed him des coines, / Said: “What will you take / In the way of a steak? / Here’s a very nice piece off des loines.”
1924 October, Bruce Barton, “The Way I Want to Die”, inThe Reader’s Digest, volume 3, number30,page359, column 1:
I expect to retire after that fashion—by changing work. The most serious weakness in our present social system is that everyone has to stick at the same thing all the time. It would be much more exciting if the butcher, havingbutched until his spirit is a bit weary, might become a Senator.
2022, Ira Nayman,The Ugly Truth (Transdimensional Authority), Dartford: Elsewhen Press,→ISBN:
I never wanted to be a politician. In my home universe, I was a butcher. Meat was my life. Ibutched.
I can vouch that it is in regular use in Clitheroe and the neighbouring district, where such expressions as “Ibutched three sheep yesterday,” or “He used to be a farmer, but has now gone into thebutching business,” are very frequently heard.
1943 August 15, “All About Horse Meat”, inSales Management, volume52, number17,page 2, column 2:
However, the idea of horse meat for animal food is thoroughly established, and this industry has grown up in California because there seem to be more dogs and cats per capita than elsewhere; because horse meat sold in special pet food shops always has been economical, costing less than half as much as butcher’s meat. Even before the meat was freely sold in fresh form, it wasbutched regularly for dog food canners.
2004, Gregorio Hernandez Zamora,Identity and Literacy Development: Life Histories of Marginal Adults in Mexico City,University of California, Berkeley, page233:
Growing every pig takes between 8 and 12 months, and once they are ready to bebutched, he sells them for 1500 to 2000 pesos (150-200 USD).
2001, Marie-Hélène Bourcier,Queer zones: politiques des identités sexuelles, des représentations et des savoirs:
"[…] un couple qui fonctionne requiert des individus dichotomiques qu’il s’agisse d’un homme et d’une femme ou bien d’unebutch et d’une femme", Lilian Faderman,Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers, A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth Century.
2007, Eli Flory,Ces femmes qui aiment les femmes, Archipel,→ISBN:
Unebutch n’est pas unefem, qui n’est pas unelipstick.[…] À l’origine,butch se disait aussi bien pour un homme que pour une femme qui accusait une apparence « très masculine ». Lebutch man est l’homme […]
2008, Claude Guillon,Je chante le corps critique: Les usages politiques du corps:
[…] à jouer tel rôle social de sexe, en manifestent néanmoins ardemment le désir ou en arborent les signes extérieurs de manière la plus ostentatoire possible. Unebutch américaine déclare : « Je n’ai jamais renoncé à la femme qui est en moi. »
[1], Oxford:Oxford University Press, launched 2000, archived fromthe original on2023-09-12.