butt
Meanings
- The larger or thicker end of something; the blunt end, in distinction from the sharp or narrow end
- The buttocks or anus (used as a minced oath in idiomatic expressions; less objectionable than arse/ass).
- The whole buttocks and pelvic region that includes one's private parts.
- Body; self.
- The thickest and stoutest part of tanned oxhides, used for soles of boots, harness, trunks.
- The waste end of anything.
- A used cigarette.
- A piece of land left unplowed at the end of a field.
- Hassock.
- A crust end-piece of a loaf of bread.
- 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.
- To join at the butt, end, or outward extremity; to terminate; to be bounded; to abut.
- To strike bluntly, particularly with the head.
- To strike bluntly with the head.
- To cut in line (in front of someone).
- A push, thrust, or sudden blow, given by the head; a head butt.
- A thrust in fencing.
- An English measure of capacity for liquids, containing 126 wine gallons which is one-half tun.
- A wooden cask for storing wine, usually containing 126 gallons.
- Any of various flatfish such as sole, plaice or turbot
- A heavy two-wheeled cart.
- A three-wheeled cart resembling a wheelbarrow.
- The shoulder of an animal, especially the portion above the picnic, as a cut of meat.
- Synonym of butty (“a friend or buddy”).
- A surname.
- A surname from English.
- A surname from German.
- A surname from Kashmiri.
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Etymology
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