What's the difference between butch and dyke?

Butch


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Older women and those who present more archetypically as butch have an easier time of it (because older women in general are often sidelined by the press and society) and because butch women are often viewed as less attractive and tantalising to male editors and readers.
  • (2) Mickelson's coach, Butch Harmon, was reduced to tears.
  • (3) Station commander Butch Wilmore used a robot arm to grab the capsule and its 5,000 pounds (2,300kg) of precious cargo, as the craft soared more than 260 miles (420km) above the Mediterranean.
  • (4) Recent research suggests that butch-femme role playing in lesbian couples has diminished and been replaced with androgynous attitudes and behaviors.
  • (5) She always had a butch identity, but couldn't express it as a girl in the 1980s.
  • (6) And I distinctly remember seeing Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, which turned me on to Robert Redford and probably led to me the 70s version of Gatsby .
  • (7) Copyright: AK Summers The idea for Pregnant Butch came when she was first thinking about having a baby – her son, Franklin, is now 10.
  • (8) "When you're a butch, you want the way you look to be recognised as intentional," she says.
  • (9) The Johnny Depp western The Lone Ranger has attracted ire from campaigners over its addition of a prosthetic cleft lip to actor William Fichtner's face, to enhance the "evil" qualities of his outlaw killer character Butch Cavendish.
  • (10) The Stonewall uprising was led by drag queens but the first punch was thrown by a butch lesbian.
  • (11) "Plus it had those elements of fantasy - I was brought up on Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and Jesse James.
  • (12) Because only the inactive monomeric form of ButChE contains free sulfhydryl groups, it is postulated that MMH combines covalently with the sulfur, preventing formation of active enzyme.
  • (13) The memory of this woman's distended belly resurfaced when Summers was contemplating pregnancy, reviving adolescent fears that butchness was synonymous with ugliness.
  • (14) Take The L Word : the drama about lesbians ran for six seasons, but faced criticisms over not including enough butch characters, for example.
  • (15) But the flipside was that I often felt I had lost my butchness.
  • (16) Pregnant Butch is her first full-length graphic book.
  • (17) Sothcott said the character of Matron, played by Hattie Jacques in 1967’s similarly titled Carry On Doctor and 1969’s Carry On Again Doctor, would now be portrayed as a “butch gay” man.
  • (18) A ll my preconceptions about Mexican food were blown out of the water on my first trip to the country, when I discovered a cuisine that offers everything from butch street food to incredibly refined dishes, from hearty food like grandmother’s mole to delicate crab soups.
  • (19) Stone Butch Blues, her influential first novel , considers the difficulties of lesbian and transgender life in the second half of the 20th century.
  • (20) Finally, like Paul Newman and Robert Redford at the end of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid , they broke cover, and dashed to their equipment, all guns blazing.

Dyke


Definition:

  • (n.) See Dike. The spelling dyke is restricted by some to the geological meaning.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We thought we had a responsibility to English football if we can fit [the clubs] in, and that money we can use to support grassroots football,” Dyke said.
  • (2) Grade said he objected to Dyke's assertion in the Times that he used information about the BBC's schedule when he quit as chairman of the corporation in late 2006 to move to ITV.
  • (3) Last year David Cameron dubbed Offa’s Dyke “the line between life and death”, and barely a week goes by at Westminster without the Conservatives kicking the Welsh NHS.
  • (4) Alexander Lebedev has targeted some of the biggest names in British media to edit the Independent, including Greg Dyke, the former director general of the BBC.
  • (5) Latin America delights in Fifa arrests after years of impunity Read more Greg Dyke, chairman of the English Football Association (FA), said that the 79-year-old needed to leave Fifa for the organisation to continue.
  • (6) A report by Greg Dyke, former director general of the BBC, is likely to recommend that the BBC licence fee is scrapped to save up to £100m a year.
  • (7) The review, which originally promised to report in January, was broadly welcomed but some felt that Dyke had overlooked the findings of a recent wide ranging review into the supply line for domestic talent that resulted in the £340m Elite Player Performance Plan in favour of asking the same questions again.
  • (8) Dyke believes that following the Olympics, Entwistle has a chance to show "how important the BBC is to the nation".
  • (9) Van Dyke is the first on-duty officer to be charged with murder while working for the Chicago police department in nearly 35 years.
  • (10) Among them are former director general Greg Dyke, who described the trust under Fairhead’s predecessor Lord Patten as a “busted flush” .
  • (11) And, I think, certainly in terms of the playing, we can make a difference.” Dyke also said new visa rules agreed last week with the Home Office will help.
  • (12) Following this week's withdrawal of Lord Coe, who had been backed by David Cameron and George Osborne , the former director general Greg Dyke said neither politician should have become so involved.
  • (13) "I don't think [Patten's] doing a good job because I don't know where he was when the crisis happened," Dyke told MPs on the House of Commons culture, media and sport select committee on Tuesday.
  • (14) When we decided in Brazil that we wanted Roy to continue with his contract, we thought, ‘He’s got a contract, he sees it through.’ Sometime in the next year we will discuss what happens afterwards.” Dyke said in March: “I get on quite well with Roy and I chat to him all the time.
  • (15) Instead, let's hunt down whoever told Van Dyke an English accent just involves adding "guvnerrrr" to every other sentence.
  • (16) Greg Dyke interview: ‘People keep coming up to me and saying: Well done, you got rid of him!’ Read more Asked whether he would bet on Blatter being arrested if he had to choose, Dyke replied: “Yes.” Blatter has strenuously denied all wrongdoing.
  • (17) Dyke’s plan is unlikely to find favour with all top flight clubs, who want to preserve their autonomy and believe a £340m investment in the Elite Player Performance Plan is bearing fruit.
  • (18) Having overseen early England exits at the 2014 World Cup and now Euro 2016, Dyke said Roy Hodgson’s successor as England manager could be a foreign coach but said he had to be steeped in English football.
  • (19) Greg Dyke, the Football Association chairman, believes a new contract for Roy Hodgson is not entirely dependent on a successful finish at Euro 2016.
  • (20) Independent IAB members, including the former Chelsea players Graeme Le Saux and Paul Elliott, have written a joint letter to the FA chairman Greg Dyke and all FA councillors backing Rabbatts and criticising the investigation.