boydyke

plural boydykes

1. slangvulgarA lesbian with a masculine presentation and/or identification. (Chiefly used as a self-descriptor and by butch or gender-nonconforming lesbians.)

   But I don't think boydykes have dibs on playing with gender: I too like the sexiness of a floating signifier.

   1998, Rosamund Else-Mitchell, Naomi Flutter, Talking Up: Young Women's Take on Feminism, page 97

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   Thus, research designs that operationalize sexual identity in a unidimensional, fixed, limited, forced-choice manner omit most of the homoerotic youth who assume unspecified sexual identities (e.g., two-spirit, boydyke, omnisexual, trans-boi), […]

   2007, Ilan H. Meyer, Mary E. Northridge, The Health of Sexual Minorities, page 40

   In 2000, several 'trannie boys, boydykes, FTMs, Lesbian Avengers and young gender-variant women' - who were not transsexual women - were evicted from the festival for their refusal to identify as 'womyn-born womyn'[…]

   2011, Mimi Marinucci, Feminism is queer, page 55