buttare

Meaning

  1. (transitive) to throw, to toss, to fling, to chuck, to sling
  2. (transitive) to spout, to spurt, to pour, to discharge
  3. (transitive) to throw about, to waste
  4. (transitive) to put out, to sprout, to shoot
  5. (transitive) to beat in
  6. (transitive) to put (the pasta) in boiling water
  7. (intransitive) to tend [with a ‘towards something’]
  8. (intransitive) to turn out (well or badly)
  9. (slang, vulgar) in the form "buttarlo" (to throw it): to penetrate sexually

Frequency

B2
Hyphenated as
but‧tà‧re
Pronounced as (IPA)
/butˈta.re/
Etymology

From Old French bouter (“to strike”), of Germanic origin. Compare Neapolitan vottare and Sicilian vottare.

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