Dyke vs. Butch — What's the Difference?

Variant of dike1.

Exhibiting stereotypically masculine appearance or behavior. Used especially of lesbians and gay men.

Used as a disparaging term for a lesbian.

(Slang) One who is butch.

(historical) A long, narrow hollow dug from the ground to serve as a boundary marker.

A haircut in which the hair is cropped close to the head.

A long, narrow hollow dug from the ground to conduct water.

Very masculine, with a masculine appearance or attitude.

(dialect) Any navigable watercourse.

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

(dialect) Any watercourse.

Markedly masculine in appearance or manner; - used of men.

(dialect) Any small body of water.

Same as lesbian.

(obsolete) Any hollow dug into the ground.

A lesbian who is noticeably masculine.

A place to urinate and defecate: an outhouse or lavatory.

Offensive terms for a lesbian who is noticeably masculine

An embankment formed by the creation of a ditch.

Used of men; markedly masculine in appearance or manner

(obsolete) A city wall.

Pejorative synonym for lesbian

A low embankment or stone wall serving as an enclosure and boundary marker.

(dialect) Any fence or hedge.

An earthwork raised to prevent inundation of low land by the sea or flooding rivers.

(figuratively) Any impediment, barrier, or difficulty.

A beaver's dam.

(dialect) A jetty; a pier.

A raised causeway.

A fissure in a rock stratum filled with intrusive rock; a fault.

(geology) A body of rock (usually igneous) originally filling a fissure but now often rising above the older stratum as it is eroded away.

A lesbian, particularly one with masculine or butch traits or behavior.

A non-heterosexual woman.

To dig, particularly to create a ditch.

To surround with a ditch, to entrench.

To surround with a low dirt or stone wall.

To raise a protective earthwork against a sea or river.

To scour a watercourse.

To steep [fibers] within a watercourse.

See Dike. The spelling dyke is restricted by some to the geological meaning.

Offensive terms for a lesbian who is noticeably masculine

A barrier constructed to contain the flow of water or to keep out the sea

Enclose with a dike;