Butt

Quick meaning: Butt is a noun meaning (countable) The larger or thicker end of something; the blunt end, in distinction from the sharp or narrow end.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. (countable) The waste end of anything.
2. (countable, generally) An end of something, often distinguished in some way from the other end.
3. (countable) A limit; a bound; a goal; the extreme bound; the end.
4. To join at the butt, end, or outward extremity; to terminate; to be bounded; to abut.
5. (transitive) To strike bluntly, particularly with the head.
6. (intransitive) To strike bluntly with the head.
7. (transitive, intransitive, eastern Canada, parts of the northeastern US) To cut in line (in front of someone).

Example Sentences

Teacher! He just butted me!

Two harmless lambs are butting one the other.

Rams butt at other males during mating season.

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

Word Forms

• butts
• butting
• butted
• but

Synonyms for butt

Depending on context, synonyms include pipe, butty, stern, ass, edge, prat.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include keister, arse, stub, rear, laughingstock, prat.

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