butt
/bʌt/ noun B2- The buttocks or anus (used as a minced oath in idiomatic expressions; less objectionable than arse/ass). · Get up off your butt and get to work.
- The whole buttocks and pelvic region that includes one's private parts. · I can see your butt.
- Body; self. · Get your butt to the car.· We can't chat today. I have to get my butt to work before I'm late.
- The thickest and stoutest part of tanned oxhides, used for soles of boots, harness, trunks.
- A used cigarette.
- A piece of land left unplowed at the end of a field. · c. 1850-1860, Alexander Mansfield Burrill, A New Law Dictionary and Glossary The hay was growing upon headlands and butts in cornfields.
- A crust end-piece of a loaf of bread.
- The end of a firearm opposite to that from which a bullet is fired. · She was hit in the face with the butt of a shotgun.
Plural butts
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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The Bull quietly addressed him: “Butt away as much as you will.
“He never lost his grip; but he got it butt downward for a moment too long.
However, he, like Cæsar Borgia, knew the value of time; and, in order to avoid fruitless toil, he sounded all the other walls with his pickaxe, struck the earth with the butt of his gun, and finding nothing that appeared suspicious, returned to that part of the wall whence issued the consoling sound he had before heard.
He straightened himself then, and I saw that what he held in his hand was a sort of gun, with a curiously misshapen butt.
Other matches
- butt To join at the butt, end, or outward extremity C2
- butt To strike bluntly, particularly with the head. C2
- butt Any of various flatfish such as sole, plaice or... C2
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- butt Synonym of butty C2
- butt An English measure of capacity for liquids, con... C2
- butt A push, thrust, or sudden blow, given by the head C2
- butt in To join a conversation or situation in which on...
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