butch up

== English == === Verb === butch up (third-person singular simple present butches up, present participle butching up, simple past and past participle butched up) (intransitive) To become more butch (masculine). (transitive) To make more butch (masculine). 1977-1980, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure If I had hormones to lower my voice & butch up my face with a few whiskers, I don't believe I would suffer the anxiety of passing.