butt - Definition, Meaning and Synonyms

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Definitions

nounbutts

1
The larger or thicker end of something; the blunt end, in distinction from the sharp or narrow end
Get up off your butt and get to work.
2
The waste end of anything.
I walked around, picking butts from the street.
3
A push, thrust, or sudden blow, given by the head; a head butt.
Be careful in the pen, that ram can knock you down with a butt.
4
A thrust in fencing.
To prove who gave the fairer butt, / John shows the chalk on Robert's coat.
5
An English measure of capacity for liquids, containing 126 wine gallons which is one-half tun.
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. –
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A wooden cask for storing wine, usually containing 126 gallons.
[…]I escap'd upon a butt of sack which the sailors heav'd o'erboard[…]
7
Any of various flatfish such as sole, plaice or turbot
8
A heavy two-wheeled cart.
9
The shoulder of an animal, especially the portion above the picnic, as a cut of meat.
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.
10
Synonym of butty (“a friend or buddy”).
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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verbbutts · butting · butted

1
To join at the butt, end, or outward extremity; to terminate; to be bounded; to abut.
And Barnsdale there doth butt on Don's well-watered ground.
2
To strike bluntly, particularly with the head.

nameButts

1
A surname.

Definitions

nounbutts

1
The larger or thicker end of something; the blunt end, in distinction from the sharp or narrow end
Get up off your butt and get to work.
2
The waste end of anything.
I walked around, picking butts from the street.
3
A push, thrust, or sudden blow, given by the head; a head butt.
Be careful in the pen, that ram can knock you down with a butt.
4
A thrust in fencing.
To prove who gave the fairer butt, / John shows the chalk on Robert's coat.
5
An English measure of capacity for liquids, containing 126 wine gallons which is one-half tun.
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. –
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pipe
6
A wooden cask for storing wine, usually containing 126 gallons.
[…]I escap'd upon a butt of sack which the sailors heav'd o'erboard[…]
7
Any of various flatfish such as sole, plaice or turbot
8
A heavy two-wheeled cart.
9
The shoulder of an animal, especially the portion above the picnic, as a cut of meat.
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.
10
Synonym of butty (“a friend or buddy”).
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.
Similar
butty

verbbutts · butting · butted

1
To join at the butt, end, or outward extremity; to terminate; to be bounded; to abut.
And Barnsdale there doth butt on Don's well-watered ground.
2
To strike bluntly, particularly with the head.

nameButts

1
A surname.