butt

I can see your butt.

(countable) The larger or thicker end of something; the blunt end, in distinction from the sharp or narrow end

(Canada, US, Philippines, slang) The buttocks or anus (used as a minced oath in idiomatic expressions; less objectionable than arse/ass).

(slang) The whole buttocks and pelvic region that includes one's private parts.

Get your butt to the car.

We can't chat today. I have to get my butt to work before I'm late.

Get up off your butt and get to work.

(leather trades) The thickest and stoutest part of tanned oxhides, used for soles of boots, harness, trunks.

I walked around, picking butts from the street.

1957, Jack Kerouac, chapter 10, in On the Road, Viking Press, →OCLC, part 2:

(countable) The waste end of anything.
(slang) A used cigarette.

The waste end of anything.
A used cigarette.

c. 1850-1860, Alexander Mansfield Burrill, A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
The hay was growing upon headlands and butts in cornfields.

A piece of land left unplowed at the end of a field.

(countable) The waste end of anything.
(obsolete, West Country) Hassock.

(US) A crust end-piece of a loaf of bread.

The waste end of anything.
A crust end-piece of a loaf of bread.

She was hit in the face with the butt of a shotgun.

(countable, generally) An end of something, often distinguished in some way from the other end.

The end of a firearm opposite to that from which a bullet is fired.

(lacrosse) The plastic or rubber cap used to cover the open end of a lacrosse stick's shaft in order to reduce injury.

The portion of a half-coupling fastened to the end of a hose.

The end of a connecting rod or other like piece, to which the boxing is attached by the strap, cotter, and gib.

(mechanical) A joint where the ends of two objects come squarely together without scarfing or chamfering.

(carpentry) A kind of hinge used in hanging doors, etc., so named because it is attached to the inside edge of the door and butts against the casing, instead of on its face, like the strap hinge; also called butt hinge.

(shipbuilding) The joint where two planks in a strake meet.

The joint where two planks in a strake meet.

I put out my hand and felt the meat-chopper hanging to the wall. In a flash I was after him. [...] With one last touch of humanity I turned the blade back and struck him with the butt.

1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 231:

The blunt back part of an axehead or large blade. Also called the poll.

[…] when the sun gets round to the butt of the wind, the change, if any is coming, is then to be expected.

1865, Arthur Kavanagh, The Cruise of the R.Y.S. Eva, page 62:

[…] 'the butt' of the wind, the wind will increase or continue. When the sky is light and clear in 'the butt' of the wind, the wind will die away. A strong wind which changes round with the sun E to S to W (clockwise) will die away, and[…]

2013 April 16, G. W. Maunsell, The Fisherman's Vade Mecum - A Compendium of Precepts, Counsel, Knowledge and Experience in Most Matters Pertaining to Fishing for Trout, Sea Trout, S, Read Books Ltd, →ISBN:

(dialect or nautical, possibly dated) The direction from which the wind blows.

The direction from which the wind blows.

To which is fixed, as an aim or butt[…]

1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], line 186:

The inhabitants of all cities and towns were ordered to make butts, and to keep them in repair, under a penalty of twenty shillings per month, and to exercise themselves in shooting at them on holidays.

1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 37:

The groom his fellow groom at butts defies, / And bends his bow, and levels with his eyes.

1697, Virgil, “The Second Book of the Georgics”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:

(countable) A limit; a bound; a goal; the extreme bound; the end.

He's usually the butt of their jokes.

I played a sentence or two at my butt, which I thought very smart.

1711 October 1 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison; Richard Steele et al.], “THURSDAY, September 20, 1711”, in The Spectator, number 175; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume II, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC:

The man was one of the most conspicuously infamous sights in the imperial court, bred, as he had been, in a shoemaker's shop, of a deformed person and vulgar wit, originally introduced as a butt.

1876, Alfred John Church and William Jackson Brodribb, Annals of Tacitus., translation of original by Cornelius Tacitus, page 300:

(usually as "butt of (a) joke") A person at whom ridicule, jest, or contempt is directed.

The hut or shelter of the person who attends to the targets in rifle practice.

Here is my journey's end, here is my butt / And very sea-mark of my utmost sail.

c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii], line 267:

приклад

larger or thicker end of anything; blunt end

perä

end of something, often distinguished from other end

culata

the end of a firearm opposite to that from which a bullet is fired

tárgy (with a possessive suffix, used with nevetség, tréfa, gúny, or another synonym)

monttu

shooting: shelter for person attending targets

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.

cog

Old English buttuc (“end, small piece of land”)

der

Proto-Indo-European *bʰudʰmḗn ~ *bʰudʰn-


butt

And Barnsdale there doth butt on Don's well-watered ground.

1612, Michael Drayton, “(please specify the chapter)”, in [John Selden], editor, Poly-Olbion. Or A Chorographicall Description of Tracts, Riuers, Mountaines, Forests, and Other Parts of this Renowned Isle of Great Britaine, […], London: […] [Humphrey Lownes] for M[athew] Lownes; I[ohn] Browne; I[ohn] Helme; I[ohn] Busbie, →OCLC:

In the sketch (which is taken about 75 Jovian days after that of the 2nd July) there is shown a dark copper-coloured streak along the southern margin of the south brown belt, butting on to a bluff-headed streak of cumulus cloud which may be the same remarkable bluff head noticed on July 2.

1878 November 8, C. Todd, “Observations at the Adelaide Observatory”, in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, volume 39, number 1, page 18:

To join at the butt, end, or outward extremity; to terminate; to be bounded; to abut.

en-verb

butt (third-person singular simple present butts, present participle butting, simple past and past participle butted)

butts (present singular third-person)
butting (participle present)
butted (participle past)
butted (past)

think the sun shines out of someone's butt


butt

Two harmless lambs are butting one the other.

1651, Henry Wotton, A Description of the Country's Recreations:

(transitive) To strike bluntly, particularly with the head.

Rams butt at other males during mating season.

(intransitive) To strike bluntly with the head.

Teacher! He just butted me!

Additionally, kids are pinched, fondled, propositioned, and hit; and it all goes unseen amid the general confusion and nonspecific orders from the cafeteria supervisors who are yelling things like, "Keep it down, you people!" "No butting!" "Wait your turn, boys!" All of which sound as though there is law and order, just no actual justice to the victim.

2016, Chandler, Dan, Bullying in Plain Sight: How Inattentive Adults Encourage the School Bullies, Mustang, O.K.: Tate Publishing and Enterprises, LLC, →ISBN, page 45:

(transitive, intransitive, eastern Canada, parts of the northeastern US) To cut in line (in front of someone).

һөҙөшөү

(intransitive) to strike bluntly with the head

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.


butt

Be careful in the pen, that ram can knock you down with a butt.

The handcuffed suspect gave the officer a desperate butt in the chest.

Its noise attracted its outside mate, and the child gloried in its buzzing butts to get in.

1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 167:

A push, thrust, or sudden blow, given by the head; a head butt.

To prove who gave the fairer butt, / John shows the chalk on Robert's coat.

1718, Mat[thew] Prior, “Alma: Or, The Progress of the Mind”, in Poems on Several Occasions, London: […] Jacob Tonson […], and John Barber […], →OCLC:

pusku

sudden blow from the head of an animal; headbutt


butt

Again, by 28 Hen. VIII, cap. 14, it is re-enacted that the tun of wine should contain 252 gallons, a butt of Malmsey 126 gallons, a pipe 126 gallons, a tercian or puncheon 84 gallons, a hogshead 63 gallons, a tierce 41 gallons, a barrel 31.5 gallons, a rundlet 18.5 gallons. –

1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, page 205:

(English units) An English measure of capacity for liquids, containing 126 wine gallons which is one-half tun.

[…]I escap'd upon a butt of sack which the sailors heav'd o'erboard[…]

1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii], line 121:

A wooden cask for storing wine, usually containing 126 gallons.

From Middle English bit, bitte, bytte, butte (“leather bottle”), from Old English bytt, byt (from Proto-West Germanic *buttjā) and Old French boute (“cask”) and other etymologies on this page, all from Vulgar Latin *buttia. Doublet of boccia.


butt

(Northern England) Any of various flatfish such as sole, plaice or turbot

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.


butt

(dated, West Country and Ireland) A heavy two-wheeled cart.

(dated, West Country and Ireland) A three-wheeled cart resembling a wheelbarrow.


butt

Cut the foot off one inch above the joint, as this makes a much neater looking shoulder. The top third of the shoulder that was removed from the “California ham” is known as the shoulder butt. This piece is divided into lean butt ("Boston Butt") and fat butt ("Clear Plate") […] The lean butt makes an excellent roast.

1926, E. C. Johnson, Edward James Wilford, Ernest Newton Fergus, George Roberts, Henry Ernest Curtis, John B. Hutson, Oscar Bernard Jesness, William Durrett Nicholls, Man Labor, Horse Work and Materials Used in Producing Crops in Christian County, page 365:

Alternative choices for the shoulder butt oven roast: if you are buying the butt of pork then you must enjoy the flavour that you get only with the fattiet cuts of meat; consequently I suggest the boneless pork loin rib end. Apart from the butt, this wonderful piece of pork has the most fat […]

2003, Harry Jordan, Meat Harry: A Meat Lover's Guide to Buying and Preparing Beef, Pork, and Poultry, GeneralStore PublishingHouse, →ISBN, page 114:

Wrap the pork butt. Work quickly and purposefully to minimize the time the pork butt is out of the smoker. Place the pork butt in the center of a single 18 x 36-inch piece of foil.

2019 July 22, Chris Grove, The Offset Smoker Cookbook: Pitmaster Techniques and Mouthwatering Recipes for Authentic, Low-and-Slow BBQ, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 85:

The shoulder of an animal, especially the portion above the picnic, as a cut of meat.

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 butt to refer to "the larger or thicker end of something, in distinction from the sharp or narrow end" or "the waste end".


butt

(vinkel) obtuse (angle between 90 and 180 degrees)

head

butt (neuter singular butt, definite singular and plural butte, comparative buttere, indefinite superlative buttest, definite superlative butteste)

butt (neuter singular)
butte (definite plural singular)
buttere (comparative)
buttest (indefinite superlative)
butteste (definite superlative)


butt

butt (neuter singular butt, definite singular and plural butte, comparative buttare, indefinite superlative buttast, definite superlative buttaste)

butt (neuter singular)
butte (definite plural singular)
buttare (comparative)
buttast (indefinite superlative)
buttaste (definite superlative)


butt

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.


butt

Bats: ბუთთ class bd (butt)

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Chechen: бутт class bd (butt)

Ingush: бутт class bd (butt)