butt

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

   “Get up off your butt and get to work.”

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

   “I can see your butt.”

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

   “Get your butt to the car.”

   “We can't chat today. I have to get my butt to work before I'm late.”

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.

   “I walked around, picking butts from the street.”

6. (countable)The waste end of anything.

   “c. 1850-1860, Alexander Mansfield Burrill, A New Law Dictionary and Glossary The hay was growing upon headlands and butts in cornfields.”

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.

   “She was hit in the face with the butt of a shotgun.”

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.

    “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.”

17. (countable, dated, dialectal, possibly)An end of something, often distinguished in some way from the other end.

    “[…] when the sun gets round to the butt of the wind, the change, if any is coming, is then to be expected.”

    “[…] '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[…]”

18. (countable)A limit; a bound; a goal; the extreme bound; the end.

    “Here is my journey's end, here is my butt / And very sea-mark of my utmost sail.”

19. (countable)A limit; a bound; a goal; the extreme bound; the end.

    “archery butt”

    “To which is fixed, as an aim or butt[…]”

    “The inhabitants of all cities and towns were ordered to make butts, and to keep them in repair, under a penalty of twenty shillings per month, and to exercise themselves in shooting at them on holidays.”

    “The groom his fellow groom at butts defies, / And bends his bow, and levels with his eyes.”

20. (countable, usually)A limit; a bound; a goal; the extreme bound; the end.

    “He's usually the butt of their jokes.”

    “I played a sentence or two at my butt, which I thought very smart.”

    “The man was one of the most conspicuously infamous sights in the imperial court, bred, as he had been, in a shoemaker's shop, of a deformed person and vulgar wit, originally introduced as a butt.”

21. (countable)A limit; a bound; a goal; the extreme bound; the end.
22. (countable, dialectal)A limit; a bound; a goal; the extreme bound; the end.

    “archery butt”

23. 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.”

    “The handcuffed suspect gave the officer a desperate butt in the chest.”

    “Its noise attracted its outside mate, and the child gloried in its buzzing butts to get in.”

24. A thrust in fencing.

    “To prove who gave the fairer butt, / John shows the chalk on Robert's coat.”

25. An English measure of capacity for liquids, containing 126 wine gallons which is one-half tun.

    “Again, by 28 Hen. VIII, cap. 14, it is re-enacted that the tun of wine should contain 252 gallons, a butt of Malmsey 126 gallons, a pipe 126 gallons, a tercian or puncheon 84 gallons, a hogshead 63 gallons, a tierce 41 gallons, a barrel 31.5 gallons, a rundlet 18.5 gallons. –”

26. A wooden cask for storing wine, usually containing 126 gallons.

    “[…]I escap'd upon a butt of sack which the sailors heav'd o'erboard[…]”

27. (Northern-England)Any of various flatfish such as sole, plaice or turbot
28. (Ireland, West-Country, dated)A heavy two-wheeled cart.
29. (Ireland, West-Country, dated)A three-wheeled cart resembling a wheelbarrow.
30. The shoulder of an animal, especially the portion above the picnic, as a cut of meat.

    “Cut the foot off one inch above the joint, as this makes a much neater looking shoulder. The top third of the shoulder that was removed from the “California ham” is known as the shoulder butt. This piece is divided into lean butt ("Boston Butt") and fat butt ("Clear Plate") […] The lean butt makes an excellent roast.”

    “Alternative choices for the shoulder butt oven roast: if you are buying the butt of pork then you must enjoy the flavour that you get only with the fattiet cuts of meat; consequently I suggest the boneless pork loin rib end. Apart from the butt, this wonderful piece of pork has the most fat […]”

    “Wrap the pork butt. Work quickly and purposefully to minimize the time the pork butt is out of the smoker. Place the pork butt in the center of a single 18 x 36-inch piece of foil.”

31. (Wales, colloquial)Synonym of butty (“a friend or buddy”).

    “2025, Eleri Griffiths, Woman goes viral after delivery photo catches her in just a towel (BBC News) https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2p0n73zmro "He looks up, laughs as he sees the way I'm looking - soaking wet and in a towel - takes a full-blown picture, and just walks off. "I'm like, 'cheers butt'," she added.”

verb

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

   “And Barnsdale there doth butt on Don's well-watered ground.”

   “In the sketch (which is taken about 75 Jovian days after that of the 2nd July) there is shown a dark copper-coloured streak along the southern margin of the south brown belt, butting on to a bluff-headed streak of cumulus cloud which may be the same remarkable bluff head noticed on July 2.”

2. (transitive)To strike bluntly, particularly with the head.

   “Two harmless lambs are butting one the other.”

3. (intransitive)To strike bluntly with the head.

   “Rams butt at other males during mating season.”

4. (Canada, Eastern, intransitive, transitive)To cut in line (in front of someone).

   “Teacher! He just butted me!”

   “Additionally, kids are pinched, fondled, propositioned, and hit; and it all goes unseen amid the general confusion and nonspecific orders from the cafeteria supervisors who are yelling things like, "Keep it down, you people!" "No butting!" "Wait your turn, boys!" All of which sound as though there is law and order, just no actual justice to the victim.”

name

1. A surname.
2. A surname.
3. A surname.