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butt

UK/bʊt/ US/bʌt/ common us
verb (3) noun (8)

verb

1.

lie adjacent to another or share a boundary

  • “Canada adjoins the U.S.”
  • “England marches with Scotland”
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2.

to strike, thrust or shove against, often with head or horns

  • “He butted his sister out of the way”
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3.

place end to end without overlapping

  • “The frames must be butted at the joints”

noun

1.

thick end of the handle

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2.

a victim of ridicule or pranks

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3.

the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on

  • “he deserves a good kick in the butt”
  • “are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?”
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4.

sports equipment consisting of an object set up for a marksman or archer to aim at

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5.
6.

a joint made by fastening ends together without overlapping

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7.

a large cask (especially one holding a volume equivalent to 2 hogsheads or 126 gallons)

8.

the small unused part of something (especially the end of a cigarette that is left after smoking)

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Origin

From Middle English but, butte (“goal, mark, butt of land”), from Old English byt, bytt (“small piece of land”) and *butt (attested in diminutive Old English buttuc (“end, small piece of land”) > English buttock), from Proto-West Germanic *butt, from Proto-Germanic *buttaz (“end, piece”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰudʰnós (“bottom”), later thematic variant of Proto-Indo-European *bʰudʰmḗn ~ *bʰudʰn-, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ- (“deep”). Cognate with Norwegian butt (“stump, block”), Icelandic bútur (“piece, fragment”), Low German butt (“blunt, clumsy”). Influenced by Old French but, butte (“but, mark”), ultimately from the same Germanic source. Compare also Albanian bythë (“buttocks”), Ancient Greek πυθμήν (puthmḗn, “bottom of vessel”), Latin fundus (“bottom”) and Sanskrit बुध्न (budhná, “bottom”), from the same Proto-Indo-European root. Related to bottom, boot. PIE word *bʰudʰmḗn

Phrases

  • beer-butt chicken
  • Boston butt
  • Brazilian butt
  • Brazilian butt lift
  • bubble butt
  • bust one's butt
  • butt and ben
  • butt bag
  • butt heads with
  • butt in
  • butt out
  • butt set

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