but
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: note: stressed form
ipa: /bʌt/
note: stressed form
ipa: [bɐt]
enpr: bŭt
note: stressed form
ipa: /bʊt/
ipa: /bət/
ipa: /bʊʔ/
ipa: /bət/
enpr: bət
rhymes: -ʌt
homophone: butt
Forms: form: buts
form: butting
form: butted
form: butted
Etymology: From Middle English but, buten, boute, bouten, from Old English būtan (“without, outside of, except, only”), from Proto-West Germanic *biūtan, *biūtini, equivalent to be- + out. Cognate with Scots but, bot (“outside, without, but”), Saterland Frisian buute (“without”), West Frisian bûten (“outside of, apart from, other than, except, but”), Dutch buiten (“outside”), Dutch Low Saxon buten (“outside”), German Low German buuten, buute (“outside”), obsolete German baußen (“outside”), Luxembourgish baussen. Compare bin, about.
Senses: examples: text: But me no buts.
glosses: Use the word "but".
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from the preposition, adverb, conjunction, or noun but
word: all but
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word: all-but
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word: anything but
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word: but and ben
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word: but for
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word: but for the grace of God
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word: but good
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word: but hey
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word: but if
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word: but me no buts
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word: but seriously folks
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word: but that
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word: but then
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word: but then again
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word: but who's counting
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word: can but hope
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word: cannot but
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word: cannot help but
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word: can't but
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word: can't help but
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word: everything but the galley stove
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word: gurry-but
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word: ifs, ands, or buts
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word: it's not what you know but whom you know
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word: it's not what you say but how you say it
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word: Jill of all trades but mistress of none
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word: not but
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word: nothing but
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word: not only … but also
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word: silent-but-violent
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word: though but
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word: yesterday but one