How do you use the word "butt" in a sentence?

Q: How do you use the word "butt" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "butt": The cause of the fire was his cigarette butt. The one whose butt got burned has to sit on the blisters.

Butt Meaning

/bʌt/

Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounThe larger or thicker end of something; the blunt end, in distinction from the sharp or narrow end

nounThe larger or thicker end of something; the blunt end, in distinction from the sharp or narrow end, The buttocks or anus (used as a minced oath in idiomatic expressions; less objectionable than arse/ass).

Sentence Examples

The cause of the fire was his cigarette butt.

The one whose butt got burned has to sit on the blisters.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

goat edge march

Antonyms:

None

CEFR Practice Quiz

He accidentally hit the door with his shoulder ____ while trying to enter backwards.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

He accidentally sat on a cigarette ____ that was left on the chair.

Word Origin & History

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

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"I walked around, picking butts from the street." — 1957, Jack Kerouac, chapter 10, in On the Road, Viking Press, →OCLC, part 2:

"I put out my hand and felt the meat-chopper hanging to the wall. In a flash I was after him. [...] With one last touch of humanity I turned the blade back and struck him with the butt." — 1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 231:

"[…] when the sun gets round to the butt of the wind, the change, if any is coming, is then to be expected." — 1865, Arthur Kavanagh, The Cruise of the R.Y.S. Eva, page 62:

"[…] 'the butt' of the wind, the wind will increase or continue. When the sky is light and clear in 'the butt' of the wind, the wind will die away. A strong wind which changes round with the sun E to S to W (clockwise) will die away, and[…]" — 2013 April 16, G. W. Maunsell, The Fisherman's Vade Mecum - A Compendium of Precepts, Counsel, Knowledge and Experience in Most Matters Pertaining to Fishing for Trout, Sea Trout, S, Read Books Ltd, →ISBN:

"Here is my journey's end, here is my butt / And very sea-mark of my utmost sail." — c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii], line 267:

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