Meaning of butt | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A push, thrust, or sudden blow, given by the head; a head butt.
2. An English measure of capacity for liquids, containing 126 wine gallons which is one-half tun.
3. Any of various flatfish such as sole, plaice or turbot
   Northern-England
4. A heavy two-wheeled cart.
   Ireland, West-Country, dated
5. The shoulder of an animal, especially the portion above the picnic, as a cut of meat.
6. Synonym of butty (“a friend or buddy”).
   Wales, colloquial
7. The larger or thicker end of something; the blunt end, in distinction from the sharp or narrow end
   Canada, Cumbria, Philippines, US, countable, slang
8. The buttocks or anus (used as a minced oath in idiomatic expressions; less objectionable than arse/ass).
   Canada, Cumbria, Philippines, US, countable, slang
9. A surname.
10. A surname from English.
11. A thrust in fencing.
12. A wooden cask for storing wine, usually containing 126 gallons.
13. A three-wheeled cart resembling a wheelbarrow.
    Ireland, West-Country, dated
14. The whole buttocks and pelvic region that includes one's private parts.
    Canada, Cumbria, Philippines, US, countable, slang
15. A surname from German.
16. Body; self.
    Canada, Cumbria, Philippines, US, countable, metonymically, slang
17. A surname from Kashmiri.
18. The thickest and stoutest part of tanned oxhides, used for soles of boots, harness, trunks.
    countable
19. The waste end of anything.
    countable, slang
20. A used cigarette.
    countable, slang
21. A piece of land left unplowed at the end of a field.
    countable
22. Hassock.
    West-Country, countable, obsolete
23. A crust end-piece of a loaf of bread.
    US, countable
24. An end of something, often distinguished in some way from the other end.
    countable
25. The end of a firearm opposite to that from which a bullet is fired.
    countable
26. The plastic or rubber cap used to cover the open end of a lacrosse stick's shaft in order to reduce injury.
    countable
27. The portion of a half-coupling fastened to the end of a hose.
    countable
28. The end of a connecting rod or other like piece, to which the boxing is attached by the strap, cotter, and gib.
    countable
29. A joint where the ends of two objects come squarely together without scarfing or chamfering.
    countable
30. A kind of hinge used in hanging doors, etc., so named because it is attached to the inside edge of the door and butts against the casing, instead of on its face, like the strap hinge; also called butt hinge.
    countable
31. The joint where two planks in a strake meet.
    countable
32. The blunt back part of an axehead or large blade. Also called the poll.
    countable
33. The direction from which the wind blows.
    countable, dated, dialectal, possibly
34. A limit; a bound; a goal; the extreme bound; the end.
    countable
35. A mark to be shot at; a target.
    countable
36. A person at whom ridicule, jest, or contempt is directed.
    countable, usually
37. The hut or shelter of the person who attends to the targets in rifle practice.
    countable
38. The entire ground (range) on which archers' target practice takes place.
    countable, dialectal

Equivalents

Examples

“Get up off your butt and get to work.”

“I can see your butt.”

“Get your butt to the car.”

“We can't chat today. I have to get my butt to work before I'm late.”

“I walked around, picking butts from the street.”

“c. 1850-1860, Alexander Mansfield Burrill, A New Law Dictionary and Glossary The hay was growing upon headlands and butts in cornfields.”

“She was hit in the face with the butt of a shotgun.”

“I put out my hand and felt the meat-chopper hanging to the wall. In a flash I was after him. [...] With one last touch of humanity I turned the blade back and struck him with the butt.”

“[…] when the sun gets round to the butt of the wind, the change, if any is coming, is then to be expected.”

“[…] 'the butt' of the wind, the wind will increase or continue. When the sky is light and clear in 'the butt' of the wind, the wind will die away. A strong wind which changes round with the sun E to S to W (clockwise) will die away, and[…]”

“Here is my journey's end, here is my butt / And very sea-mark of my utmost sail.”

“archery butt [=archery target]”

“To which is fixed, as an aim or butt[…]”

“The inhabitants of all cities and towns were ordered to make butts, and to keep them in repair, under a penalty of twenty shillings per month, and to exercise themselves in shooting at them on holidays.”

“The groom his fellow groom at butts defies, / And bends his bow, and levels with his eyes.”

“He's usually the butt of their jokes.”

“I played a sentence or two at my butt, which I thought very smart.”

“The man was one of the most conspicuously infamous sights in the imperial court, bred, as he had been, in a shoemaker's shop, of a deformed person and vulgar wit, originally introduced as a butt.”

“archery butt [=archery ground]”

“Be careful in the pen, that ram can knock you down with a butt.”

“The handcuffed suspect gave the officer a desperate butt in the chest.”

“Its noise attracted its outside mate, and the child gloried in its buzzing butts to get in.”

“To prove who gave the fairer butt, / John shows the chalk on Robert's coat.”

“Again, by 28 Hen. VIII, cap. 14, it is re-enacted that the tun of wine should contain 252 gallons, a butt of Malmsey 126 gallons, a pipe 126 gallons, a tercian or puncheon 84 gallons, a hogshead 63 gallons, a tierce 41 gallons, a barrel 31.5 gallons, a rundlet 18.5 gallons. –”

“[…]I escap'd upon a butt of sack which the sailors heav'd o'erboard[…]”

“Cut the foot off one inch above the joint, as this makes a much neater looking shoulder. The top third of the shoulder that was removed from the “California ham” is known as the shoulder butt. This piece is divided into lean butt ("Boston Butt") and fat butt ("Clear Plate") […] The lean butt makes an excellent roast.”

“Alternative choices for the shoulder butt oven roast: if you are buying the butt of pork then you must enjoy the flavour that you get only with the fattiet cuts of meat; consequently I suggest the boneless pork loin rib end. Apart from the butt, this wonderful piece of pork has the most fat […]”

“Wrap the pork butt. Work quickly and purposefully to minimize the time the pork butt is out of the smoker. Place the pork butt in the center of a single 18 x 36-inch piece of foil.”

“2025, Eleri Griffiths, Woman goes viral after delivery photo catches her in just a towel (BBC News) https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2p0n73zmro "He looks up, laughs as he sees the way I'm looking - soaking wet and in a towel - takes a full-blown picture, and just walks off. "I'm like, 'cheers butt'," she added.”

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