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  1. transitive verb To hit or push against with the head or horns; ram.
  2. intransitive verb To hit or push something with the head or horns.
  3. intransitive verb To project forward or out.
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  • In the sixties the butt was the shackers, the swarms of poor that encircled every urban complex. —  F ;SF - vol 093 issue 03 - September 1997
  • If I had not seen his legs wiggling futilely in the air, and drawn him forth, dripping, he would have drowned, as the butt was too solid for his struggles to dump, and he couldn't make a sound for help As we neared San Francisco several of the boys spoke to me of taking up a purse for my benefit. —  Tramping on Life
  • Jayce is straight, but has learned a dick up his butt is a sure fire way to turn him on, and he seems to like the bigger dicks. —  QueerClick
  • Her legs are nice and long, her butt is a nice round peach, but it's those little titties that caught my eye and I can't seem to stop staring at them. —  Pornpig Porn Party
  • Twice Von Steyr tried to pass his sabre through him; an Uhlan struck him with a lance-butt, another buried a lance-point in his back, but he clung like a wild-cat to his man, burying his teeth in the Uhlan's face, deeper, deeper, till the Uhlan reeled back and fell crashing into the road Fire!" —  Lorraine A romance
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Etymologies (10)

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  1. Middle English butten, from Old French bouter, to strike, of Germanic origin; see bhau- in Indo-European roots.
  2. Middle English butten, from Anglo-Norman butter (variant of Old French bouter; see butt1) and from but, end; see butt4.
  3. Middle English butte, target, from Old French, from but, goal, end, target; see butt4.
  4. Middle English butte, from Old French but, end, of Germanic origin.
  5. Middle English, from Old French boute, from Late Latin *buttia, variant of buttis.

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  1. Also sometimes (like all the other words spelled butt) written but, early modern English butte, from Middle English butten, push, throw, from Anglo-French buter, Old French buter, boter, push, butt, strike, modern F. bouter, put, buter, intransitive hit the mark, aim, transitive prop, buttress, = Provencal botar, boutar, butar = Spanish Portuguese botar = Italian bottare, lance, buttare, push, thrust, throw, fling; perhaps from Middle High German bōzen, strike, beat, = Anglo-Saxon beátan, etc., beat: see beat. To the same ult. source are referred boss, botch, etc.; also abut, of which butt in some senses (II., 2, 3) is in part an abbreviation form. Hence indirectly butt, buttress, etc.
  2. from Middle English butt; from butt, v. The second sense is due in part to F. botte, a pass or thrust in fencing, from Italian botta = Spanish Portuguese bote, a thrust, blow; from the same source as butt, v.
  3. Also written but, early modern English butte, from Middle English but, butte, a goal (meta), a mark to shoot at, but, butt, butte, a butt of land (Middle Latin butta terræ); from Old French “buto, masculine, a but or mark,” “butte, feminine, a but or mark to shoot at,” in another form “bot, as but [a mark], Norman; also, a luncheon, or ill-favoured big piece” (Cotgrave), the same as Old French bot, end, extremity, modern F. bout, end, extremity, part, piece, distinguished from modern F. but, masculine, aim, goal, mark, butte, feminine, a mark, target, usually set upon rising ground, hence also a rising ground, knoll, hill, butte (later English butte, q. v.); all orig. from Old French buter, boter, Anglo-French buter, push, butt, strike, modern F. bouter, put, buter, hit the mark, aim, prop, later English butt, of which. butt is thus indirectly a derivative: see butt. The forms and senses mix with some of apparently different origin: cf. Norwegian butt, a stump, block, Icelandic būtr, a log, Low German butt, a stumpy child; German butt = Dutch bot = Danish but, short and thick, stubby (later F. bot in pied bot, club-foot, = Spanish boto, blunt, round at the end): referred, doubtfully, ult. to the root of English beat, q. v. prob. in part confused with Low German butt, etc., a tub, etc., = English butt.
  4. from butt, n.
  5. Also written but, early modern English but, butte; from (1) Middle English bytte, bitte, bit, earlier butte, a leathern bottle, a wine-skin (in late Middle English bitte, a leathern fire-bucket), from Anglo-Saxon bytt, byt, a leathern bottle, = Middle Dutch butte, Dutch but, a wooden bucket, = Middle Low German butte, Low German butte, butt = Middle High German bütte, German butte, bütte, a tub, coop, = Icelandic bytta, a small tub, a bucket, pail, = Norwegian bytta, a tub, bucket, pail, a brewing-vat (cf. butt, a keg, a butter-tub), = Swedish bytta, a pail, = Danish bötte, a tub, coop; mixed with (2) Middle English *butte (not found in this sense), from Old French boute, modern F. botte = Provencal Spanish bota = Italian botte, a butt, cask; cf. (3) Anglo-Saxon byden = Middle Low German bodene, boden, bode, bodde, budde, also bodeme (by confusion with bodeme = English bottom) = Old High German butinna, Middle High German butin, budin, büten, buten, bütten, German bütte (mixed with the above) = Old Danish bodde, a butt, tun, tub, vat; cf. Italian bottina, a little butt; (4) Anglo-Saxon buteruc, buteric, butruc, early Middle English buttruc = Old Saxon buteric = Old High German butirih, puterih, Middle High German buterich, butrich, a leathern bottle, a flask, German dial. bütterich, büttrich, a small tub or barrel, a keg (Middle Latin buttericus, a tankard); and (5) see bottle, from the same ult. source: from Middle Latin buttis, butta, also butis, buta, a butt, a cask, Middle Greek βύτις, βοῦτις, a butt (New Greek βούτα, a tub, a churn, βουτσί, a tub, a barrel), apparently shortened from the older form (from which directly the third set of forms mentioned), Middle Latin butina, a flask, from Greek πυτίνη, later (Tarentine) βυτίνη, a flask covered with osier (cf. New Greek βυτίνα, a pan for salting meat). As in other vessel-names, the precise application varies in the different languages. In the sense of a particular measure of wine, the word is modern; cf. pipe in similar senses.
 

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