butt

Meaning

1. (slang) The larger or thicker end of something; the blunt end, in distinction from the sharp or narrow end
2. (slang) The larger or thicker end of something; the blunt end, in distinction from the sharp or narrow end
3. (slang) The larger or thicker end of something; the blunt end, in distinction from the sharp or narrow end
4. The larger or thicker end of something; the blunt end, in distinction from the sharp or narrow end
5. (slang) The waste end of anything.
6. The waste end of anything.
7. (obsolete) The waste end of anything.
8. The waste end of anything.
9. An end of something, often distinguished in some way from the other end.
10. An end of something, often distinguished in some way from the other end.
11. An end of something, often distinguished in some way from the other end.
12. An end of something, often distinguished in some way from the other end.
13. An end of something, often distinguished in some way from the other end.
14. An end of something, often distinguished in some way from the other end.
15. An end of something, often distinguished in some way from the other end.
16. An end of something, often distinguished in some way from the other end.
17. An end of something, often distinguished in some way from the other end.
18. A limit; a bound; a goal; the extreme bound; the end.
19. A limit; a bound; a goal; the extreme bound; the end.
20. A limit; a bound; a goal; the extreme bound; the end.

buttocks

tooshie

hind end

butt against

butt end

butt on

cigarette butt

eesle

butt-end

tierce

britt

bump against

lacrosse stick

stumble over

butt of a gun

conflict

sport

rifle stock

breet

tuchus

buttstock

pollarding

mark to aim at

buttress thread

flush coupling

butted joint

ingot bar

flat connect

flat grafting

shoulder stock

collide with

coffin-nail

cigarette end

caboose

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/bʌt/

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 .