Butch is a common nickname, particularly in the 19th and 20th centuries for boys.

See also:

• Butch and Femme, for use of the word as a description of gender roles or gender presentation
• Butch Cassidy, American outlaw
• Butch O'Hare, WWII ace pilot and Congressional medal of honor recipient
• Butch Reynolds
• Butch Coolidge, a fictional character in Pulp Fiction, a boxer played by Bruce Willis.
• Butch Miller, a professional wrestler.
• Jonathan 'Butch' Norton was the drummer with the band Eels and now plays with Tracy Chapman
• Ronald "Butch" DeFeo, Jr., a murderer who lived in the Amityville Horror House in the 70's
• Butch & Cassidy (Team Rocket) – Pokémon characters.
• One of the Tamworth Two pigs who escaped from an abattoir and caused a media frenzy in England in 1998

• Butch, adj: meaning good, cool, awesome "yah butch"

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