Search results
- DictionaryButt/bət/
noun
- 1. the thicker end of something, especially a tool or a weapon: "a rifle butt"
- 2. the stub of a cigar or a cigarette: "the ashtray was crammed with cigarette butts"
verb
- 1. adjoin or meet end to end: "the church butted up against the row of houses"
People also ask
What does Butt mean?
What does butt out mean?
What does not butt in mean?
Is Butt a Greek word?
Butt definition, the end or extremity of anything, especially the thicker, larger, or blunt end considered as a bottom, base, support, or handle, as of a log, fishing rod, or pistol. See more. Dictionary.com
BUTT definition: 1. your bottom: 2. the end of a cigarette that is left after it is smoked: 3. the end of the…. Learn more.
butt 1 (but), USA pronunciation n. the end or extremity of anything, esp. the thicker, larger, or blunt end considered as a bottom, base, support, or handle, as of a log, fishing rod, or pistol. an end that is not used or consumed; remnant: a cigar butt. Food a lean cut of pork shoulder. Slang Terms the buttocks. Slang Terms a cigarette.
Definition of butt verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
- Pronunciation
- Etymology 1
- Etymology 2
- Etymology 3
- Etymology 4
- Etymology 5
- Etymology 6
- References
- Further Reading
(Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: bŭt, IPA(key): /bʌt/(Northern England) IPA(key): /bʊt/Rhymes: -ʌtHomophone: butFrom 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 themati...
From Middle English butten, from Anglo-Norman buter, boter (“to push, butt, strike”), from Frankish *bautan (“to hit, beat”), from Proto-Germanic *bautaną (“to beat, push”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewd- (“to beat, push, strike”). Cognate with Old English bēatan (“to beat”). More at beat.
From Middle English bit, bitte, bytte, butte (“leather bottle”), from Old English bytt, byt and Old French boute (“cask”) and other etymologies on this page, all from Late Latin buttis.
From Middle English but, butte, botte (“flounder; plaice; turbot”), possibly derived from sense 1 (“blunt end”), meaning "blunt-headed fish." Compare Dutch bot and the second element of English halibut. Cognate with West Frisian bot, German Low German Butt, German Butt, Butte, Swedish butta.
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Originally apparently a less-desired cut, named either due to its often being packed in butts (“casks”) for storage and shipping, or from the use of buttto refer to "the larger or thicker end of something, in distinction from the sharp or narrow end" or "the waste end".
Wright, Joseph (1898) The English Dialect Dictionary, volume 1, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pages 463–465Patricia T. O'Conner, Stewart Kellerman quoting Steve Hartman Keiser (2021 December 27) “Cut, butt, skip, or ditch in line?”, in Grammarphobia, archived from the original on 2023-05-21: “He says "...“butt”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.“butt”, in The Century Dictionary[…], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.1. : buttocks. slipped and fell on his butt. often used as a euphemism for ass in idiomatic expressions. Get your butt over here. kick butt. saved our butts. 2. : the large or thicker end part of something: a. : the thicker or handle end of a tool or weapon. the butt of a rifle. b. food : a marbled upper cut of the pork shoulder.
UK /bʌt/ verb (with object) 1. (of a person or animal) hit (someone or something) with the head or horns she butted him in the chest 2. strike (the head) against something he butts his head against a wall noun a push or blow, especially one given with the head. phrases. butt heads. phrasalVerbs. butt in butt out. word origin.
