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"etymology_text": "From the resemblance to buttocks.",
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"examples": [
{
"ref": "2011, C. Lazarus, Father on the Loose!",
"text": "Still looking lost and confused, Clive scratched his butt-chin, looked me in the eye with both pupils constricted, and full of uncertainty, he stammered as he fired yet another question.",
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{
"ref": "2010, Scott Pratt, Injustice for All",
"text": "Katie immediately noticed a deep cleft in his chin. “Butt chin” was what the kids at school called it.",
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},
{
"ref": "2010, Beth Williamson, Unbridled",
"text": "Alex barked a laugh, surprising both of them. \"Butt chin? What does that mean?\"\n\"It's got a crack in it, like a butt. Daddy had the butt chin, too.\"",
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{
"ref": "2008, Sara Shepard, Flawless, page 206",
"text": "Aria sneaked a peek at Sean. Her eyes kept gravitating toward the little cleft in his chin. Ali used to call them \"butt chins,\" but it was actually pretty cute.",
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{
"ref": "2007, Nancy Taylor Rosenberg, Sullivan's Evidence, page 334",
"text": "His most distinctive feature was his cleft chin. Some people jokingly referred to it as a “butt chin.” Sheppard's dimpled chin wasn't at all unsightly.",
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{
"ref": "2006, Carol Weston, Melanie in Manhattan, page 261",
"text": "He had a cleft chin, or as Matt whispered to me, a butt chin.",
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{
"ref": "2004, Justin Hocking, Jeffrey Knutson, Jared Jacang Maher, Life and Limb: Skateboarders Write from the Deep End page 107",
"text": "He bent down slowly and got so close to my face, I could see the lines in his glossy, unchapped lips and the stubbled hairs in the crack of his butt-chin.\npage 123\nAnd I told him everything; his perfect teeth glistened, a dimple flattered his flawless butt-chin."
},
{
"ref": "2004, Hailey Abbot, Summer Boys, page 79",
"text": "I guess he does have a butt chin.",
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{
"ref": "1995, John Sandford, Night Prey",
"text": "He had a chin on him, a butt-chin, with a dimple in it.",
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"ref": "2011, C. Lazarus, Father on the Loose!",
"text": "Still looking lost and confused, Clive scratched his butt-chin, looked me in the eye with both pupils constricted, and full of uncertainty, he stammered as he fired yet another question.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2010, Scott Pratt, Injustice for All",
"text": "Katie immediately noticed a deep cleft in his chin. “Butt chin” was what the kids at school called it.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2010, Beth Williamson, Unbridled",
"text": "Alex barked a laugh, surprising both of them. \"Butt chin? What does that mean?\"\n\"It's got a crack in it, like a butt. Daddy had the butt chin, too.\"",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2008, Sara Shepard, Flawless, page 206",
"text": "Aria sneaked a peek at Sean. Her eyes kept gravitating toward the little cleft in his chin. Ali used to call them \"butt chins,\" but it was actually pretty cute.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2007, Nancy Taylor Rosenberg, Sullivan's Evidence, page 334",
"text": "His most distinctive feature was his cleft chin. Some people jokingly referred to it as a “butt chin.” Sheppard's dimpled chin wasn't at all unsightly.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2006, Carol Weston, Melanie in Manhattan, page 261",
"text": "He had a cleft chin, or as Matt whispered to me, a butt chin.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2004, Justin Hocking, Jeffrey Knutson, Jared Jacang Maher, Life and Limb: Skateboarders Write from the Deep End page 107",
"text": "He bent down slowly and got so close to my face, I could see the lines in his glossy, unchapped lips and the stubbled hairs in the crack of his butt-chin.\npage 123\nAnd I told him everything; his perfect teeth glistened, a dimple flattered his flawless butt-chin."
},
{
"ref": "2004, Hailey Abbot, Summer Boys, page 79",
"text": "I guess he does have a butt chin.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1995, John Sandford, Night Prey",
"text": "He had a chin on him, a butt-chin, with a dimple in it.",
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"synonyms": [
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"word": "butt-chin"
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"word": "butt chin"
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