butt

CEFRB1

/bʌt/

noun · verb

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A person's buttocks.

  2. 02

    verb

    To hit someone or something with the head.

Examples

  • The cause of the fire was his cigarette butt.

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

At a glance

Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
2
Citations
5
Synonyms
5

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. The thick or lower end of something.

  2. The larger or thicker end of something; the blunt end, in distinction from the sharp or narrow end

  3. The thickest and stoutest part of tanned oxhides, used for soles of boots, harness, trunks.

More examples

In context

  • Get up off your butt and get to work.

  • Get your butt to the car.

  • I can see your butt.

Synonyms

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Origin

noun

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 (“b...