BUTT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does butt mean? 

• BUTT (noun)
  The noun BUTT has 9 senses:

1. thick end of the handle

2. the part of a plant from which the roots spring or the part of a stalk or trunk nearest the roots

3. a victim of ridicule or pranks

4. the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on

5. sports equipment consisting of an object set up for a marksman or archer to aim at

6. finely ground tobacco wrapped in paper; for smoking

7. a joint made by fastening ends together without overlapping

8. a large cask (especially one holding a volume equivalent to 2 hogsheads or 126 gallons)

9. the small unused part of something (especially the end of a cigarette that is left after smoking)

  Familiarity information: BUTT used as a noun is familiar.

• BUTT (verb)
  The verb BUTT has 3 senses:

1. lie adjacent to another or share a boundary

2. to strike, thrust or shove against

3. place end to end without overlapping

  Familiarity information: BUTT used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BUTT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Thick end of the handle

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

butt; butt end

Hypernyms ("butt" is a kind of...):

stock (the handle end of some implements or tools)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "butt"):

rifle butt (the butt end of a rifle)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The part of a plant from which the roots spring or the part of a stalk or trunk nearest the roots

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("butt" is a kind of...):

component; component part; constituent; part; portion (something determined in relation to something that includes it)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A victim of ridicule or pranks

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

butt; goat; laughingstock; stooge

Hypernyms ("butt" is a kind of...):

dupe; victim (a person who is tricked or swindled)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "butt"):

April fool (the butt of a prank played on April 1st)

Sense 4

Meaning:

The fleshy part of the human body that you sit on

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

arse; ass; backside; behind; bottom; bum; buns; butt; buttocks; can; derriere; fanny; fundament; hind end; hindquarters; keister; nates; posterior; prat; rear; rear end; rump; seat; stern; tail; tail end; tooshie; tush

Context example:

are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?

Hypernyms ("butt" is a kind of...):

body part (any part of an organism such as an organ or extremity)

Holonyms ("butt" is a part of...):

body; torso; trunk (the body excluding the head and neck and limbs)

Sense 5

Meaning:

Sports equipment consisting of an object set up for a marksman or archer to aim at

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

butt; target

Hypernyms ("butt" is a kind of...):

sports equipment (equipment needed to participate in a particular sport)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "butt"):

clay pigeon (target used in skeet or trapshooting)

Sense 6

Meaning:

Finely ground tobacco wrapped in paper; for smoking

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

butt; cigaret; cigarette; coffin nail; fag

Hypernyms ("butt" is a kind of...):

roll of tobacco; smoke (tobacco leaves that have been made into a cylinder)

Meronyms (parts of "butt"):

cigarette butt (small part of a cigarette that is left after smoking)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "butt"):

cubeb; cubeb cigarette (a cigarette containing cubeb)

filter-tipped cigarette (a cigarette with a filter tip)

joint; marijuana cigarette; reefer; spliff; stick (marijuana leaves rolled into a cigarette for smoking)

Sense 7

Meaning:

A joint made by fastening ends together without overlapping

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

butt; butt joint

Hypernyms ("butt" is a kind of...):

joint (junction by which parts or objects are joined together)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "butt"):

butt-weld; butt weld (a butt joint that is welded)

fish joint (a butt joint formed by bolting fish plates to the sides of two rails or beams)

Derivation:

butt (lie adjacent to another or share a boundary)

butt (place end to end without overlapping)

Sense 8

Meaning:

A large cask (especially one holding a volume equivalent to 2 hogsheads or 126 gallons)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("butt" is a kind of...):

barrel; cask (a cylindrical container that holds liquids)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "butt"):

water butt (a butt set on end to contain water especially to store rainwater)

Sense 9

Meaning:

The small unused part of something (especially the end of a cigarette that is left after smoking)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

butt; stub

Hypernyms ("butt" is a kind of...):

part; portion (something less than the whole of a human artifact)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "butt"):

cigar butt (small part of a cigar that is left after smoking)

cigarette butt (small part of a cigarette that is left after smoking)

roach (the butt of a marijuana cigarette)

• BUTT (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they butt    ... he / she / it butts   
Past simple: butted   
Past participle: butted   
-ing form: butting   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Lie adjacent to another or share a boundary

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

abut; adjoin; border; butt; butt against; butt on; edge; march

Context example:

England marches with Scotland

Hypernyms (to "butt" is one way to...):

adjoin; contact; meet; touch (be in direct physical contact with; make contact)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "butt"):

neighbor; neighbour (be located near or adjacent to)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

Derivation:

butt (a joint made by fastening ends together without overlapping)

Sense 2

Meaning:

To strike, thrust or shove against

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

bunt; butt

Context example:

The goat butted the hiker with his horns

Hypernyms (to "butt" is one way to...):

strike (deliver a sharp blow, as with the hand, fist, or weapon)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "butt"):

headbutt (butt with the head)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

The fighter managed to butt his opponent

Also:

butt against (collide violently with an obstacle)

Derivation:

butter (a fighter who strikes the opponent with his head)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Place end to end without overlapping

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Context example:

The frames must be butted at the joints

Hypernyms (to "butt" is one way to...):

lay; place; pose; position; put; set (put into a certain place or abstract location)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

butt (a joint made by fastening ends together without overlapping)

 Context examples 

How he did it I could not imagine, but he pushed and pulled and butted until he got me through the crowd, and right up to the steps which led to the office.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He straightened himself then, and I saw that what he held in his hand was a sort of gun, with a curiously misshapen butt.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The fifth and last member, Dutchy, was the willing butt of the party.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Slowly the butt descended the several intervening inches, at the same time slightly twisting again.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

He is a violent, dangerous, cantankerous character, hated by everyone who comes across him, and the butt of the students, so far as they dare take a liberty with him.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Yet the fact remains that the reader, who was a fine, robust old man, was knocked clean down by it as if it had been the butt end of a pistol.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It is but what you do yourselves for pleasure upon a Sunday evening at the parish village butts.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This failed to drive Buck from his prostrate rival, and the butt of the whip was brought into play.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Must 'a' butted clean through it, b'gosh!

(White Fang, by Jack London)

“The elephant butts, you know, sir,” said Mr. Omer, winking, “when he goes at a object. Once, elephant. Twice. Three times!”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)