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butch up

butch up verb: to become more butch (masculine).

Verb

butch up (third-person singular simple present butches up, present participle butching up, simple past and past participle butched up)

  1. (intransitive) To become more butch (masculine).
  2. (transitive) To make more butch (masculine).
    • If I had hormones to lower my voice & butch up my face with a few whiskers, I don't believe I would suffer the anxiety of passing.1977-1980, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure

Forms of butch up

third-person singular presentbutches up
present participlebutching up
past participlebutched up
pastbutched up

Questions about butch up

What does butch up mean?
Butch up means to become more butch (masculine).
What part of speech is butch up?
Butch up is a verb.
What is the past tense of butch up?
The past tense of butch up is butched up.

Words near butch up in the dictionary

  1. butch
  2. butch cut
  3. butch cuts
  4. butch queen
  5. butch queens
  6. butch up
  7. butch-queen
  8. butch-queens
  9. butcha
  10. Butchart
  11. butchas

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