butt

Meaning

Noun

1. (Canada, Cumbria, Philippines, US, countable, slang) The larger or thicker end of something; the blunt end, in distinction from the sharp or narrow end
2. (Canada, Cumbria, Philippines, US, countable, slang) The larger or thicker end of something; the blunt end, in distinction from the sharp or narrow end
3. (Canada, Cumbria, Philippines, US, countable, metonymically, slang) The larger or thicker end of something; the blunt end, in distinction from the sharp or narrow end
4. (countable) The larger or thicker end of something; the blunt end, in distinction from the sharp or narrow end
5. (countable, slang) The waste end of anything.
6. (countable) The waste end of anything.
7. (West-Country, countable, obsolete) The waste end of anything.
8. (US, countable) The waste end of anything.
9. (countable) An end of something, often distinguished in some way from the other end.
10. (countable) An end of something, often distinguished in some way from the other end.
11. (countable) An end of something, often distinguished in some way from the other end.
12. (countable) An end of something, often distinguished in some way from the other end.
13. (countable) An end of something, often distinguished in some way from the other end.
14. (countable) An end of something, often distinguished in some way from the other end.
15. (countable) An end of something, often distinguished in some way from the other end.
16. (countable) An end of something, often distinguished in some way from the other end.
17. (countable, dated, dialectal, possibly) An end of something, often distinguished in some way from the other end.
18. (countable) A limit; a bound; a goal; the extreme bound; the end.
19. (countable) A limit; a bound; a goal; the extreme bound; the end.
20. (countable, usually) A limit; a bound; a goal; the extreme bound; the end.
21. (countable) A limit; a bound; a goal; the extreme bound; the end.

Verb

To join at the butt, end, or outward extremity; to terminate; to be bounded; to abut.

Verb

1. (transitive) To strike bluntly, particularly with the head.
2. (intransitive) To strike bluntly with the head.
3. (Canada, Eastern, intransitive, transitive) To cut in line (in front of someone).

Synonyms

buttocks

ass

🍑

arse

target

bum

gore

bottom

rump

rear end

behind

end

🔚

buns

backside

rear

tush

mark

tail

hindquarters

tooshie

keister

stump

tail end

stub

nates

derriere

ram

🐏

bunt

posterior

hind end

fanny

stern

prat

aim

poke

fundament

goal

hit

horn

seat

💺

can

base

bump

intent

purpose

objective

laughingstock

back

🔙

booty

strike

butt joint

Translations

culo

🍑

derrière

cul

Arsch

sedere

🪑

crosse

culo

🍑

kont

trasero

🔙

Hintern

mégot

Gesäß

fesses

cul

Po

Pronounced as (IPA)

/bʌt/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: but

Inherited from Old English: byt

Cognate with Old English: buttuc

Cognate with English: buttock

Cognate with Norwegian: butt

Cognate with Icelandic: bútur

Cognate with Low German: butt

Cognate with Old French: but

Cognate with Albanian: bythë

Cognate with Ancient Greek: πυθμήν

Cognate with Latin: fundus

Cognate with Sanskrit: बुध्न

Cognate with Old English: bēatan

Cognate with Dutch: bot

Cognate with English: halibut

Cognate with Western Frisian: bot

Cognate with German: Butt

Cognate with Swedish: butta

In summary

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