butt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: bŭt
ipa: /bʌt/
ipa: /bʊt/
rhymes: -ʌt
homophone: but
Forms: form: butts
form: butting
form: butted
form: butted
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
Senses: examples: text: And Barnsdale there doth butt on Don's well-watered ground.
ref: 1612, Michael Drayton, “(please specify the chapter)”, in [John Selden], editor, Poly-Olbion. Or A Chorographicall Description of Tracts, Riuers, Mountaines, Forests, and Other Parts of this Renowned Isle of Great Britaine, […], London: […] [Humphrey Lownes] for M[athew] Lownes; I[ohn] Browne; I[ohn] Helme; I[ohn] Busbie, →OCLC:
text: In the sketch (which is taken about 75 Jovian days after that of the 2nd July) there is shown a dark copper-coloured streak along the southern margin of the south brown belt, butting on to a bluff-headed streak of cumulus cloud which may be the same remarkable bluff head noticed on July 2.
ref: 1878 November 8, C. Todd, “Observations at the Adelaide Observatory”, in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, volume 39, number 1, page 18:
glosses: To join at the butt, end, or outward extremity; to terminate; to be bounded; to abut.
Derived terms: assbutt
back-butt
bare-butt
barebutt
beer-butt chicken
belfie
blackbutt
Boston butt
Brazilian butt
Brazilian butt lift
bubble butt
bugly
bussy
bust one's butt
butt and ben
buttass
butt bag
buttbreath
butt breath
butt-breath
butt-brush effect
butt buddy
buttbuddy
butt burp
butt call
buttcheck
butt cheek
butt-cheek
butt-chin
butt chin
butt chisel
butt-chug
butt chug
butt chugger
butt cleavage
butt-clenching
buttcrack
butt crack
butt crack of dawn
butt dial
butt dialing
butt end
butter
butterbutt
butter my butt and call it a biscuit
butter my butt and call me a biscuit
buttface
butt floss
buttfuck
buttfucker
butt-fucking
buttful
butt fusion
butthead
buttheaded
butt heads
butthole
butthook
butt-huggers
butt-hurt
butt hurt
butt in a sling
butt job
butt juice
buttkicker
butt-kicking
buttkisser
buttlegger
buttlegging
buttless
buttlicker
butt lift
buttlift
buttlike
buttload
butt load
butt-load
butt lover
butt monkey
buttmunch
buttmuncher
butt-munching
butt-naked
butt naked
butt pad
butt pirate
buttplate
buttplay
butt plug
buttprint
butt-rape
butt rider
butt-rock
butt rock
butt sex
buttsex
butt-slapping
buttslut
buttsore
butt spike
butt-stinking
buttstock
buttstroke
butt stuff
Buttswana
butt-ton
butt-ugly
butt ugly
butt virginity
butt-weld
buttweld
butt wink
butt-woman
butt woman
butty
catbutt
chucklebutt
crinklebutt
diaperbutt
dickbutt
dumbbutt
elevator butt
fagbutt
fatbutt
front butt
full butt
full-butt
futtock
get one's butt somewhere
ghetto butt
give someone butt cancer
half butt
head-butt
head butt
kick butt
kick in the butt
kick someone's butt
kick up the butt
lardbutt
lazybutt
monkey butt
monkeys might fly out of my butt
my butt
nip in the butt
on butt
outbutt
pain in the butt
plumber's butt
poofybutt
rain butt
sackbutt
scumbutt
scuttle-butt
show one's butt
sit one's butt down
someone's butt off
spring a butt
stick up one's butt
suck butt
think the sun shines out of someone's butt
underbutt
water-butt
water butt
work someone's butt off
Related terms: sense: buttocks
word: callipygian
sense: buttocks
word: callipygous
sense: buttocks
word: dasypygal