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Added 7 October 2026

butt

/bʌt/ noun

In Latin: clūnis Wiktionary

noun Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA). Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about butt at Wordnik → Where our words come from →

The larger or thicker end of something; the blunt end, in distinction from the sharp or narrow end. The buttocks or anus .
Get up off your butt and get to work.
The buttocks or anus .
Get up off your butt and get to work.
The whole buttocks and pelvic region that includes one's private parts.
I can see your butt.

verb

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

verb

To strike bluntly, particularly with the head.
To strike bluntly with the head.
Rams butt at other males during mating season.
To cut in line (in front of someone).
Teacher! He just butted me!

noun

A push, thrust, or sudden blow, given by the head; a head butt.
Be careful in the pen, that ram can knock you down with a butt.
A thrust in fencing.

Origin

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”), Faroese buttur (“wooden block”), Icelandic bútur (“piece, fragment”), Low German butt (“blunt, clumsy”).

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