Butch and Camp

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Butch adjective - Used of men; markedly masculine in appearance or manner.

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Camp and butch are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Camp" instead an adjective "Butch".

Camp adjective - Providing sophisticated amusement by virtue of having artificially (and vulgarly) mannered or banal or sentimental qualities.

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Butch and camp are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Butch" instead an adjective "Camp".

Nearby Words: campus, camped, campground, camper, campo

There was a Running Gag throughout the series about Deb, who never appeared on screen, but was the very camp Gil Chesterton's very butch wife.

Source: The Beard
Camp Gay: "Bollard" features three of them, having a discussion before adopting butch personas for a cigarette advertisement.

Source: Theatre / Beyond the Fringe
Also a very butch girl at the reeducation camp Megan's parents send her to "comes out" as straight, having been mistaken for gay just because of her looks.

Source: Mistaken for Gay

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