What's the difference between butch and nickname?

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.

Nickname


Definition:

  • (n.) A name given in contempt, derision, or sportive familiarity; a familiar or an opprobrious appellation.
  • (v. t.) To give a nickname to; to call by a nickname.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) By the 1860s, French designs were using larger front wheels and steel frames, which although lighter were more rigid, leading to its nickname of “boneshaker”.
  • (2) Nickname: SuperSarko the Omnipresident Quote: "What made me who I am now is the sum of all the humiliations suffered during childhood."
  • (3) (Observer, June 2013) Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet , 40 Current job: MP Nicknames: The harpist, "Madame Condescendante" (Bertrand Delanoë), "L'emmerdeuse" (Pain in the neck – Jacques Chirac) Campaign slogan: Une nouvelle énergie pour les Parisiens (A new energy for Parisians) Born: Paris Family: Daughter of a local mayor, granddaughter of a former French ambassador and great-granddaughter of one of the founder members of the French Communist party.
  • (4) Now 7, Jackson said the boy, nicknamed Blanket as a baby, was his biological child born from a surrogate mother.
  • (5) In the original exchange, Scudamore warned Nick West, a City lawyer who works with the Premier League on broadcasting deals, to keep a female colleague they nicknamed Edna “off your shaft”.
  • (6) The Tories will try to stick him with the nickname 'Bottler Brown'.
  • (7) Barra’s main rivals in the single-speed category were Willo and a rider nicknamed Neu York, representing the Gorilla Smash Squad.
  • (8) Nicknamed Mr 10 Percent, Zardari spent several years in prison under previous administrations.
  • (9) But as Brigitte goes on to explain, Bordeaux laboured for decades under the nickname La Belle Endormie – sleeping beauty.
  • (10) Across town in Le Central restaurant, nicknamed Hollande's canteen, the atmosphere is jovial.
  • (11) His deputy, Dokuchayev, is believed to be a well-known Russian hacker who went by the nickname Forb, and began working for the FSB some years ago to evade jail for his hacking activities.
  • (12) Nicknamed “Mr Padre”, the left-hander had a 20-year career in Major League Baseball , all of it with San Diego.
  • (13) Burns' ability to ride out a storm earned him the nickname "Teflon Terry".
  • (14) A former Socialist party leader, he is a jovial, wise-cracking believer in consensus politics, who aides say never loses his rag and who so hates fights that he was once nicknamed "the marshmallow" within his own party, or "Flanby", after a wobbly caramel pudding.
  • (15) The best-known editions are the military versions covered in red plastic and shrunk to fit the pocket of an army uniform – hence the book's nickname in the west.
  • (16) When the old BBC governors – a system of governance that essentially dated back to 1922 – was dismantled in 2006 the outcry that there might be something quickly nicknamed Ofbeeb was deafening.
  • (17) Even the nickname given to him of Monsieur Flanby, after a caramel pudding, over his perceived wobbly political views, lost its relevance as he elaborated his programme.
  • (18) Since becoming Denmark's first female prime minister two years ago, Thorning-Schmidt has had to contend with the media nickname of "Gucci Helle", so called because of her fondness for designer clothes.
  • (19) Xinhua, Beijing’s official news service, said Micius, a 600kg satellite that is nicknamed after an ancient Chinese philosopher, “roared into the dark sky” over the Gobi desert at 1.40am local time on Tuesday, carried by a Long March-2D rocket.
  • (20) While it was always possible to wash down the superb Rhodesian beef with fine Portuguese and South African wines at several hotels, Salisbury had difficulty living up to its nickname of Surbiton in the Bush.