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Definition: Butt |
ButtNoun1. Thick end of the handle. 2. A victim of ridicule or pranks. 3. The fleshy part of the human body that you sit on. 4. Sports equipment consisting of an object set up for a marksman or archer to aim at. 5. Finely ground tobacco wrapped in paper; for smoking. 6. A joint made by fastening ends together without overlapping. 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). Verb1. Lie adjacent to another; "Canada adjoins the U.S.". 2. To strike, thrust or shove against, often with head or horns: "He butted his sister out of the way.". 3. Place end to end without overlapping; "The frames must be butted at the joints". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "butt" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
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Industry | The butt is the thicker or hinder part of a hide or skin, a bend is a shape or size in which ox or cow-hides are tanned into leather, forming half of a butt. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A. Opposite of face, coal exposed at right angles to the face, and in contrast to the face, generally having a rough surface. Also called end in Scotland b. The butt of a slate quarry is where the overlying rock comes in contactwith an inclined stratum of slate rock. (references) |
Multilingual Slang | Persian (coon), Ukrainian (dupa, zhopa). (references) |
Slang in 1811 | BUTT. A dependant, poor relation, or simpleton, on whom all kinds of practical jokes are played off; and who serves as a butt for all the shafts of wit and ridicule. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A wine butt (from the medieval French and Italian botte) is a large cask (or barrel) holding two hogsheads of wine. A hogshead varied in size but today is most commonly 63 U.S. gallons (approx. 238.5 litres), so a butt is now usually 126 U.S. gallons or 108 imperial gallons (approx. 477 litres).
- The term "butt" is also U.S. slang for the buttocks.
Traditionally, a butt of beer is 162 gallons or 613 litres, and how big a butt (or "pipe") of wine is depends on what kind of wine it is:
- A butt of Madeira or of Cape Wine is 92 gallons or 348 liter.
- A butt of Sherry is 108 gallons or 409 liter.
- A butt of Brandy is 114 gallons or 431.5 liter.
- A butt of Port Wine is 115 gallons or 435 liter.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Butt."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| BU | English | Butt | Meteorology & Standards, International Organizations |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: ButtSynonyms: arse (n), ass (n), backside (n), behind (n), bottom (n), bum (n), buns (n), butt end (n), butt joint (n), buttocks (n), can (n), cigaret (n), cigarette (n), coffin nail (n), derriere (n), fag (n), fanny (n), fundament (n), goat (n), hind end (n), hindquarters (n), keister (n), laughingstock (n), nates (n), posterior (n), prat (n), rear (n), rear end (n), rump (n), seat (n), stern (n), stooge (n), stub (n), tail (n), tail end (n), target (n), tooshie (n), tush (n), abut (v), adjoin (v), border (v), bunt (v), butt against (v), butt on (v), edge (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Attack | Cut and thrust, bayonet, butt; kick, strike; (impulse); whip; (punish). |
End | Noun: end, close, termination; desinence, conclusion, finis, finale, period, term, terminus, endpoint, last, omega; extreme, extremity; gable end, butt end, fag-end; tip, nib, point; tail; (rear); verge; (edge); tag, peroration; bonne bouche; bottom dollar, tail end, rear guard. |
Impulse | Verb: give an impetus; Noun: impel, push; start, give a start to, set going; drive, urge, boom; thrust, prod, foin; cant; elbow, shoulder, jostle, justle, hustle, hurtle, shove, jog, jolt, encounter; run against, bump against, butt against; knock one's head against, run one's head against; impinge; boost; bunt, carom, clip y; fan, fan out; jab, plug. |
Strike, knock, hit, tap, rap, slap, flap, dab, pat, thump, beat, blow, bang, slam, dash; punch, thwack, whack; hit hard, strike hard; swap, batter, dowse, baste; pelt, patter, buffet, belabor; fetch one a blow; poke at, pink, lunge, yerk; kick, calcitrate; butt, strike at; (attack); whip c. (punish). | |
Intention | Final cause; raison d'etre; cui bono; object, aim, end; "the be all and the end all"; drift; (meaning); tendency; destination, mark, point, butt, goal, target, bull's-eye, |
Laughingstock | Noun: laughingstock, jestingstock, gazingstock; butt, game, fair game; April fool; (dupe). |
Receptacle | Cistern; (store); vat, caldron, barrel, cask, drum, puncheon, keg, rundlet, tun, butt, cag, firkin, kilderkin, carboy, amphora, bottle, jar, decanter, ewer, cruse, caraffe, crock, kit, canteen, flagon; demijohn; flask, flasket; stoup, noggin, vial, phial, cruet, caster; urn, epergne, salver, patella, tazza, patera; pig gin, big gin; tyg, nipperkin, pocket pistol; tub, bucket, pail, skeel, pot, tankard, jug, pitcher, mug, pipkin; galipot, gallipot; matrass, receiver, retort, alembic, bolthead, capsule, can, kettle; bowl, basin, jorum, punch bowl, cup, goblet, chalice, tumbler, glass, rummer, horn, saucepan, skillet, posnet, tureen. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | She likes your butt and fancy hair (Lilo & Stitch; writing credit: Chris Sanders) If that damn dog craps in the courtyard one more time, I'm just gonna bake his little butt for breakfast (Mulholland Dr.; writing credit: David Lynch) Hey! Get your butt across the white line (Speed; writing credit: Graham Yost) I fell off a building, I got beat on, and ran through Hong Kong butt naked (Rush Hour 2; writing credit: Jeff Nathanson) Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken (Fight Club; writing credit: Jim Uhls) | |
Lyrics | I'ma knock him so hard, on his butt (Can't Deny It; performing artist: Fabolous) They say Ms. J's big butt is boss (Intuition; performing artist: JEWEL) Get 2 to ya butt 3 to ya nogin (Fatty Girl; performing artist: Ludacris) It's creasing your butt (MIXED EMOTIONS; performing artist: Rolling Stones) Baby move your butt butt butt (Thong Song; performing artist: SISQO) | |
Clever | Butt head (references; author: unknown) The mind can only stand what the butt can endure. (references; author: unknown) Can't never could do anything till could came along and whipped can't butt. Now can't can do a lot. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Gen. McCrosky Butt and Staff (1899) Up the Butt (2001) Afro-Centrix Volume 39: Busta Butt (1998) Wild Bananas On Butt Row (1997) Big Boob Boat Butt Ride (1996) | |
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![]() | The record bonito, Tuna Club 1908, caught with rod and reel. This fish, which weighed 22 pounds, fought for more than an hour. Note angler's belt with socket for rod butt. In: "Sport Fishing in California and Florida," by Charles F. Holder. Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries, Vol. XXVIII 1908, Part I, p. 207 Plate II. Credit: Fisheries. | ![]() | [Arthur J. Butt, M.D.]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
![]() | Pencil sketch by Lieutenant Walter R. Butt, C.S. Navy, 1865. It depicts Nansemond off Chaffins Bluff, on the James River, Virginia, 22 March 1865. Credit: NAVY. | ![]() | Inauguration of Gen. Taylor, March fourth, 1849 / W.W. Butt. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Spring pulpwood drive on the Brown Company timber holdings in Maine. Mid-afternoon "lunch" by Long Pond where woodsmen are sluicing. On the menu that day: roast pork and dressing, boiled potatoes, turnips, baked beans, hot cakes, hot biscuits, bread, butt. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| "Weed and cigarettes" by Krista Commentary: "An empty bag of weed and a cigarette butt on the ground. ." | "Pigeon Back" by Ariel C. Commentary: "Pigeon Butt =)." |
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| Pile driver; construction; drive; batter; beat; butt; dash; dig; hammer; jackhammer; knock; maul; plunge; pop; punch; ram; run; shoot; sink; smite; sock; stab; stick; strike; throw; thrust; thump; thwack; whack; wham. | Blockhead; bonehead; dolt; donkey; dope; dunce; fool; halfwit; idiot; imbecile; jackass; jerk; nincompoop; nitwit; numskull; schmuck; simpleton; twerp; twit; ass; birdbrain; blockhead; bonehead; boob; bore; buffoon; butt; chump; clod; clown; cretin; dimwi. | ||
| Bonk; bang; bat; bell ringer; belt; biff; blow; buffet; bump; butt; chop; clash; clip; clout; collision; cuff; fisticuff; glance; haymaker; impact; knock; leather; lick; one-two; one-two punch; paste; pat; plunk; punch; rap; rap; roundhouse; shock; shot; . | |||
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Phyllis Diller | Living in Hollywood is like living in a lit cigar butt. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | He clasped the butt of the pistol, and felt reassured |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | He bit off the rest of the fig and flung away the butt. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | The second guard rested his gun butt on the ground |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | There were marks of an axe and of woodpeckers on the butt. |
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| "Butt" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 79.55% of the time. "Butt" is used about 401 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 79.55% | 319 | 16,154 |
| Noun (proper) | 10.47% | 42 | 52,864 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 7.98% | 32 | 61,292 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 2% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Total | 100.00% | 401 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "butt" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Butt | Last name | 2,000 | 5,069 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "butt": be a butt for ridicule ♦ be the butt of ridicule ♦ Bead and butt ♦ butt against ♦ Butt and butt ♦ butt at ♦ Butt chain ♦ butt cigarette ♦ butt end ♦ butt hinge ♦ butt in ♦ butt into ♦ butt joint ♦ butt of a gun ♦ butt of cigarette ♦ butt on ♦ Butt riveting ♦ Butt shaft ♦ butt smb. ♦ butt weld ♦ butt welding ♦ butt wrap ♦ cigar butt ♦ cigarette butt ♦ flash butt welding ♦ Full butt ♦ kick in the butt ♦ pistol butt ♦ rifle butt ♦ scuttle butt ♦ To spring a butt ♦ water butt ♦ woolly butt. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "butt": butt-crammed, butt-end, butt-ends, butt-indicator, butt-indicators, butt-joined, butt-joint, butt-jointed, butt-joints, butt-kickin', butt-naked, butt-ring, butt-traps. | |
Ending with "butt": head-butt. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
butt | 15,817 | thong butt | 294 |
big butt | 4,976 | seymour butt | 290 |
bubble butt | 1,383 | i like big butt | 287 |
butt man | 1,359 | beautiful butt | 282 |
butt plug | 1,024 | tight butt | 282 |
nice butt | 757 | cute butt | 271 |
seymore butt | 695 | hot butt | 259 |
big butt tv | 628 | butt gallery | 258 |
real butt | 627 | girl butt | 245 |
butt picture | 550 | butt implant | 243 |
big black butt | 496 | beer butt chicken | 241 |
butt exercise | 493 | girl with big butt | 236 |
black butt | 471 | bikini butt | 223 |
teen butt | 413 | fat butt | 218 |
butt rate | 391 | boy butt | 207 |
butt buddy | 380 | male butt | 206 |
butt sex | 376 | butt shot | 202 |
butt naked | 362 | big butt woman | 200 |
bare butt | 308 | beavis butt head | 199 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "butt"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | but, bisht cigareje (fag end), vythe, vozë (cask, hogshead, wood), vend qitje, shenjë (accent, aim, auspice, Beck, brand, cue, denotation, denotement, earmark, ensign, evidence, exponent, fleck, foretoken, impress, index, indication, insignia, Mark, marking, obelisk, obelus, office, omen, pledge, pointer, portent, presage, prognostication, scratch, seal, sign, signal, stamp, symbol, symptom, tally, target, token, vestige, Wale, weal), qytë, prapanicë (backside, Fanny, fundament, posterior, prat, rear), poligon, goditje me kokë, godit (bash, beat, biff, buffet, bump, clip, clout, conk, deal, defeat, hit, impinge, instigate, joggle, jostle, knock, pound, shock, shove, slam, smite, stab, strike, tap, thrash, thwack, whack), godas (affect, astonish smb., bash, beat, biff, buffet, bump, clip, clout, conk, defeat, drop, hit, impinge, knock, pound, smite, stab, strike, whack), fuçi (barrel, Cade, cask, kilderkin, snap-roll, tank, Tierce, Tun, wood), dorezë (crook, glove, grip, gripe, griping, haft, handgrip, handle, joystick, knob, stock, tommy bar). (various references) | |
Arabic | كفل (ass, backside, bottom, buttock, buttocks, ensure, guarantee, guaranty, insure, pledge, posterior, prat, rump, secure, sponsor, vouch), مؤخرة (ass, backside, behind, bum, buttock, in the end, prat, rearward, stern), هدف (aim, clout, end, goal, ideal, intent, intention, mark, object, objective, plan, purpose, study, target, tendency, view), نتأ (beetle, bulge, emboss, jut, pout, project, protrude, stick, stick out), نطحة (bunt, butting), نطح (bunt, gore, horn, leak, ram, seep), وصل (arrive, attain, befall, check, come, conduct, connect, convey, hook up, joining, joint, ligature, link, make, mark, plumb, reach, receive, result, roll in, show up, steer, touch, voucher), تدخل (butt in, chip, cut in, have a finger in the pie, have hand in smth., horn in, interfere, interference, intermediate, interpose, intervene, intervention, intrusion, involvement, mediation, obtrusion, push in, tamper, thrust), عقب السيكارة (butt cigarette, cigarette end), عقب البندقية, عجيزة (behind, bottom, breech, bum, posterior, rear, slat, tail end), الطرف الغليظ من أي شئ, الجزء الغليظ من جلد مدبوغ, الأضحوكة (laughing stock), برميل كبير (hogshead). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | намествам (edge, place, set), допирам се в една линия, дънер (kerf, log, stock, stump, trunk), приклад (stock), бут (buttock, ham, haunch, leg, quarter, rump, side), мишена (blank, target, tee), мушкам с глава, дебелият край на нещо (chump), намесвам се (break in, burst in, chime in, cut in, interfere, interpose, interrupt, intervene, meddle, put in, step in), съединявам (aggregate, band, clutch, compound, concatenate, conjoin, couple, impale, incorporate, inosculate, interlock, join, join up, knee, knit, link, marry, mate, piece, piece together, rejoin, splice, tag, tie, tie in, unite), натъквам се на (come across, encounter, happen upon, meet with, run against, run into, run up, run upon, strike, stumble across), широкият край на нещо, удар (bang, bat, blow, buff, buffet, chop, clash, clump, counter, cut, dint, go off, hit, impact, impingement, jab, jar, keystroke, knock, pass, pelt, percussion, push, rap, shake, shock, shy, smack, smash, strike, stroke, thrust, touch, turn, whack, whiplash, wipe), угарка (snipe, stub, stump), стрелбище (rifle range, shooting gallery, shooting range), стрелбищен вал, мушкане (dig, job, jog). (various references) | |
Chinese | 臀部 (buttocks), 臀 (buttocks), 靶垛, 屁股 (arse, bottom, buttocks, end). (various references) | |
Czech | velký sud (hogshead, Tun), trknutí, trknout, terè (objective, target), rána hlavou, pařez (snag, stub, stump), pažba (gun-stock), nedopalek (cigarette butt, cigarette end), násada (haft, handle, helve, stick), káï (tub, Tun, vat). (various references) | |
Danish | tap (chuck, core, disc pivot, dowel, hinge bolt, journal, peg, pintle, pivot, shoulder, spigot, spike tooth, sprue, tack, tap, tenon, wire nail), stoed (impact, joint, kicking, pushing off, rail joint, shock, stem, stock, stub, stump, throwing, trunk), stammefod, rodende, mekanisk hørforarbejdningsproces, manuel hørforarbejdningsproces, kuglefangkonstruktion (stop butt), kernestykke (bend), kaerne (bend, churn, kernel, pip), croupon (bend). (various references) | |
Dutch | butt, Vat (barrel, blood vessel, box, container, grasp, jug, vase, vessel), uiteinde (conclusion, end, ending, tip), stuiken (to butt, to jump, to shock, to stook, to upset, upsetting), plaat (bank, dial, disc, disk, grammophone disc, image, picture, plate, record, sandbank, sheet, slab), pen stuik, ondereinde van een stam, kopeinde, kogelvangerconstructie (stop butt), kern (core, essence, gist, kernel, nucleus, pit), croupon (bend). (various references) | |
Farsi | پیشرفتگی داشتن (Jut), پیش رفتن (Ago, Jut, Proceed), هدف (Aim, Cause, Goal, Mark, Object, Parrot, Point, Prick, Purpose, Scope, Sight, Target, Victim), نزدیک یامتصل شدن , کپل (Behind, Buttock), ته قنداق تفنگ , ته درخت , ته (Base, Bed, Bottom, Extremity, Heel, Stub), ضربه زدن (Dabber, Layon), شاخ زدن (Gore, Push), بیخ , بشکه (Barrel, Cask). (various references) | |
Finnish | tyvi (base, proximal part). (various references) | |
French | crosse, abouter (to butt). (various references) | |
German | zielscheibe (aunt sally, object, target), kippe (ciggy, fag, precarious situation, spring, stub, tip, tip over, toss up), dickes Ende, zigarettenstummel (butts, cigarette end, fag end), kugelfang (stop butt), kolben (beak, bulb, cob, conk, ear, flask, forcer, hooter, piston, pistons, prick, retort, spadices, spadix, tool), großes fass (hogshead). (various references) | |
Greek | κόμβος (knot, roundabout), κεφαλή φυλλοδεσμίδας, κάτω άκρον, κτυπώ διά τησ κεφαλήσ, κοντάκι (gunstock), κουτουλώ (bump into, head-butt), ρόζος (knot), στόχοσ (target, tee), βαρέλι (barrel, cask), βοδινό δέρμα (bend), υποκόπανοσ (butt of a gun), ευθυγράμμιση άκρων, άκρη ελάσματος, άκρο (abutment, border, brim, brow, edge, end, extreme, extremity, foot, ledge, limb, Marge, Neb, peak, rim, tip, verge). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מטרה ללעג (laughingstock), לנגוח (horn, knock, lunge), תחת (arse, below, beneath, bottom, buttock, rump, under), קת (haft, handle, shaft), קצה (border, edge, end, extremity, outskirts, stub, tag end, tail end, tip), חבית (barrel, cask, drum, vat, wood), זנב (appendage, rear, stub, stump, tail, tail end), נגיחה (butting, lunge). (various references) | |
Hungarian | segg (arse, ass, fanny, kazoo, prat, pratt, tail), rönk (block, clear bole, clog, stump, trunk), csikk (cigarette stub, cigarette-stub, fag end, fag-end, stub, stump), céltábla (butts, cock-shot, Mark, target). (various references) | |
Indonesian | puntung (stub), pantat (backside, behind, buttock, posterior, rear), menanduk (gore). (various references) | |
Italian | testata (head, headboard, header, heading, running head, warhead). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 話の腰を折る (to butt in, to interfere), 邪魔臭い (pain in the butt, troublesome), 頭つきをする (to butt heads), 石突き (butt end, ferrule, shoe), 出しゃばる (to butt in, to intrude), 出っ尻 (big butt, protruding buttocks), 差し越える (to butt in, to go out of turn), 台尻 (butt of a gun). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ずつきをする (to butt heads), さしこえる (to butt in, to go out of turn), でしゃばる (to butt in, to intrude), でっちり (big butt, protruding buttocks), いしづき (butt end, ferrule, shoe), じゃまくさい (pain in the butt, troublesome), はなしのこしをおる (to butt in, to interfere), だいじり (butt of a gun). (various references) | |
Korean | 개머리판쇠. (various references) | |
Manx | puhttey (butting, jostle, jostling, push), oirr (border, brim, brink, edge, edging, ledge, margin, rim, verge), kiap (block, block for burning, last, log, pad, pillow, snag, socle, stock, tree-stump, trunk, trunk of tree), immyr (bed, headland, ridge, shelf under water), bodd. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | uttbay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | barrica (barrel, cask, keg, tub), base de manoca, bater o linho, bumbum (ass, breech, crash, roll, trommel), crepão (bend), alvo (aim, blank, clean, clout, cockshot, dart board, drift, goal, mark, niveous, object, purpose, shot, target, tee), aterro (bank, banking, earthwork, goaf, hilling), cabeçada (bridle, headband), "croupon" (bend), coronha (stock), topo (cap, roof, stub, summit, tip, top, vertex), dar cabeçada, dorso (back, dorse), guimba de cigarro, juntar duas extremidades, linguado (fluke, halibut, sole), nó (burl, joint, kink, knot, knur, knurl, knurr, node, nodosity, nodus, tie, tying), parte inferior de um toro, pipa de vinho, chifrada. (various references) | |
Romanian | butuc (block, chump, hub, log, lump, pap, snag, stock, stub, stump, vine), bufon (antic, buffoon, cut up, fool, harlequin, jester, merry andrew, mugger, pantaloon, zany), butoi (barrel, cask, hogshead, vat, wood), ţintã (aim, blaze, clout, design, end, goal, hobnail, ideal, nail, object, objective, peg, pin, purport, purpose, pursuit, tack, target, weltnail, whither), îmbinare (apposition, conjugation, conjunction, contexture, gathering, imbibition, join, joinder, marriage, meeting), împunge (jab, pink, pique, prick, prod, sting, stitch, thrust), împunsãturã (cant, dig, jab, jeer, jest, pang, prick, prod, stick, stitch, tack, thrust), încheieturã (joggle, joint, knuckle, meeting, socket), ţel (aim, design, end, goal, intent, intention, mission, object, objective, purpose), cotor (haft, handle, helve, stock, stub), se bãga în, lovi cu capul, loviturã (attack, bang, bat, beat, beating, blow, box, bump, burglary, calamity, cant, clap, clip, coup, cuff, dash, drive, fib, flap, go, heading, hit, hunch, hurt, jab, jolt, kick, knock, lick, master stroke, pelt, push, round, set back, shack, shock, shot, slash, sling, smack, smash, stab, stick, strike, stroke, sweep, thrust), loviturã cu coarne, muc de ţigarã (fag end), pat de puşcã (gun-stock), poligon de tragere (shooting range), scop (aim, consummation, design, designation, effect, end, goal, intent, intention, Mark, meaning, mission, object, objective, order, purpose, scope, serve, target, turn, use), capãt gros al unui bat. (various references) | |
Russian | обух (butt end), посмешище (laughing stock, laughingstock, mock, mockery, scoff, stooge, stooges), приклад (club), предмет издевательства, бодаться, большая бочка (hogshead, puncheon), жопа, мишень (cockshot, cockshy, dartboard, target), нападок или оскорблений, стрельбищный вал, окурок (cigarette butt, cigarette end, cigarette-end, stump), оскорблений , толстый конец, торец (end, wood block), цель (aim, effect, final cause, goal, intent, intention, object, objective, purpose, target), хвостовик (shank), служащий предметом насмешек, ягодицы (breech, buttocks, fundament, nates, prat, rear), нападок. (various references) | |
Scottish | put (strike with the head, the cheek, thrust), purr (drive, strike with the head, thrust, urge). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | bosti, zadnjica (ass, backside, behind, buttocks, fanny, fundament, nates, posterior, rear, rump), upadati u reč, udariti glavom, pikavac (butt: cigarette butt, cigarette end, cigarette-stub, stub, stump), list (blade, flap, flatfish, leaf, newspaper, plaice, rag, sheet, topknot), kundak (gunstock), iverak (flounder, fluke, halibut, turbot), debeli kraj nečega, cigareta (cigarette, fag, smoke). (various references) | |
Spanish | extremo (critical, desperate, end, extreme, extremity, far, furthest, highest point, last, outer, outermost, outside, paramount, superlative, thoroughgoing, ultimate, ultra-, utmost, wing), culata (grip, handle, haunch, head, rear). (various references) | |
Swedish | stöta (barge, bruise, bump, dig, hurt, hurtle, hustle, impact, impinge, jab, knock, offend, outrage, pestle, pound, push, put, shove, stab, strike, thrust), stånga (Gore, horn). (various references) | |
Thai | ส่วนก้น, ก้น (arris, arse, ass, bazoo, boodie, boody, bottom, bum, buns, caboose, duff, gazoo, keester, keyster, khyber pass, kiester, kyber pass, labonza, rusty-dusty), ถังขนาดใหญ่, ตัวตลก (comedian, fool, jester, joker, mime), ขวิด. (various references) | |
Turkish | boynuzlamak (cuckold, Gore, horn), toslamak (bang into, barge, bump, bump into, horn, ram), tos, sap (cauline, grip, haft, halm, handgrip, handhold, handle, haulm, helve, hilt, lug, nut, peduncle, scape, shaft, shank, stag, stalk, stem, stick, Stipe, stock), popo (backside, behind, breech, bum, buttocks, can, posterior, rear, rear end), nişan (affiance, badge, betrothal, brand, decoration, device, engagement, ensign, espousal, gong, Mark, medal, order, plume, sign, target), maskara (antic, buffoon, fool, jester, laughing stock, laughingstock, mascara, masquerader, mummer, wanton, zany), kafa atmak, kafa atma (header), kıç (arse, ass, backside, behind, bottom, breech, bum, buttocks, can, Fanny, fundament, ham, haunches, hindquarters, hip, nates, poop, posterior, rear, rear end, rump, slats, stern, tail, tail end, vent), izmarit (blotched picarel, cigarette butt, cigarette end, dog end, end, fag end, pill, sea bream, stub, stump), hedef (aim, blank, bourn, Bourne, clout, cock-shy, destination, goal, home, intention, land of promise, Mark, object, objective, promised land, purpose, rover, target, terminus), dipçik (butt end, gunstock, rifle butt, stock), dip kısım. (various references) | |
Turkmen | sьsmek (gore), зьwde. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | ударяти головою, ціль (aim, goal, purpose), торець, товстий кінець (chump), грядка (bed, garden bed), недокурок (cigarette end), натикатися (blunder against), мішень (aim, target), межувати (abut, adjoin, affront, approach, border, neighbor upon, neighbour upon, outskirt, touch on, verge), межа (abutment, balk, barrier, border, bound, brink, ceiling, circumference, circumscription, delimitation, frontier, limit, pale, precinct, side-land, tiptop, ultimate, verge), з'єднувати у стик, завіса (cloud, curtain, drapery, hinge, veil), бочонок (cask, wood), погорб. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | bia bắn và ụ đất sau bia người làm trò cười, cái húc đầu, cái húc, đầu núm, đích làm trò cười. (various references) | |
Welsh | twlcio (gore, horn), pricsiwn (laughingstock), cornio (horn). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Flesus flesus, Platichthys flesus, Pleuronectes flesus. (various references) |
| Late Latin | 300-700 | buttis. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | boter, but. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "butt": buttals, butte, butted, butter, butterball, butterballs, buttercup, buttercups, buttered, butterfat, butterfats, butterfingered, butterfingers, butterfish, butterfishes, butterflied, butterflies, butterfly, butterflyer, butterflyers, butterflying, butterier, butteries, butteriest, buttering, butterless, buttermilk, buttermilks, butternut, butternuts, butters, butterscotch, butterscotches, butterweed, butterweeds, butterwort, butterworts, buttery, buttes, butties, butting, buttinski, buttinskies, buttinsky, buttock, buttocks, button, buttonball, buttonballs, buttonbush, buttonbushes. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "butt": scuttlebutt. (additional references) | |
Words containing "butt": abuttal, abuttals, abutted, abutter, abutters, abutting, bellybutton, bellybuttons, keybutton, keybuttons, misbutton, misbuttoned, misbuttoning, misbuttons, rebuttable, rebuttal, rebuttals, rebutted, rebutter, rebutters, rebutting, rebutton, rebuttoned, rebuttoning, rebuttons, scuttlebutts, surrebutter, surrebutters, unbuttered, unbutton, unbuttoned, unbuttoning, unbuttons. (additional references) | |
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"Butt" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: batt, Batut, bct, bett, bht, bhut, Biott, Bitot, bmt, bott, Botti, bput, brutt, brutta, brutto, budd, Buet, buft, buit, bujt, Bukta, bult, bumt, busht, Buta, buth, buti, buto, butr, Butta, Butu, butz, buyt, bvt, bwt, ebut, Lbut, Ubt, ubti, ubut. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "butt" (pronounced bu"t) |
| 3 | b u" t | abut, but, rebut. |
| 2 | -u" t | cut, glut, gut, hut, jut, mutt, nut, phut, putt, rut, shut, smut, somewhat, strut, tut, uncut, what. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-t-t-u" | |
-1 letter: but, tub, tut. | |
-2 letters: ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-t-t-u" | |
+1 letter: battu, butte, butts, butty, butut. | |
+2 letters: battue, butted, butter, buttes, button, bututs, tubate, tubist, turbit, turbot. | |
+3 letters: abuttal, abutted, abutter, bathtub, batteau, battues, burette, bushtit, buttals, butters, buttery, butties, butting, buttock, buttons, buttony, subtest, subtext, tribute, tubaist, tubists, tugboat, turbeth, turbith, turbits, turbots. | |
+4 letters: abutment, abuttals, abutters, abutting, baguette, bathtubs, batteaux, betelnut, bluntest, brunette, burettes, bushtits, bustiest, buttered, buttocks, buttoned, buttoner, buttress, butylate, butyrate, cuttable, debutant, extubate, intubate, obstruct, obturate, obtusest, obtusity, outbitch, outbleat, outboast, outbuilt, outburnt, outburst, outthrob, rebuttal, rebutted, rebutter, rebutton, substate, subtests, subtexts, subtilty, subtitle, subtlest, subtlety, subtotal, subtract, tabouret, tabulate, thumbnut, tributes, tubaists, tubbiest, tubulate, tugboats, turbeths, turbiths, turbojet, umbrette, unbitted, unbitten, unbitter, unbutton. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Sounds 10. Quotations: Familiar 11. Quotations: Fiction 12. Usage Frequency | 13. Names: Frequency 14. Expressions 15. Expressions: Internet 16. Translations: Modern | 17. Translations: Ancient 18. Abbreviations 19. Acronyms 20. Derivations | 21. Rhymes 22. Anagrams 23. Bibliography |
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