Definitions
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- v. Simple past tense and past participle of butt.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Furnished with a butt (of some specified kind): as, butted with ivory. Used chiefly in combination: as, brass-butted.
Etymologies
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Examples
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A banana again butted out the egg, and canola oil stepped in for Ms. Butter.
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Big Six is so much tidier with its symmetry of three-letter-word butted up against three-letter-word.
My Lovely New Tea Set!!! (Yes- it needs 3 exclamation points)
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It was a celebrity feud of sorts in the early 1990s when the famous sitar player Ravi Shankar and the bushy bearded spiritual leader of the same name butted heads.
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We were in a big political debate, firing squad was going, and one of the female judges just kind of butted in and said, "Do you think you ` re pretty?"
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And you could challenge him on those opinions, and sometimes we kind of butted heads about stuff, but we always managed to work it out.
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The lights for the ends of the house may be "butted," that is, placed edge to edge, if you happen to strike good edges, but as a general thing, it will be more satisfactory to lap them a little.
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Also there were all Rose's queer black sheep who yielded meekly to her ribbon-wreathed crook, though they "butted" against George's methods.
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These battles are often fought upon the edge of a beetling precipice -- for it is in such places that these four species of animals delight to dwell -- and not unfrequently the issue of the contest is such as that witnessed by our adventurers -- one of the combatants being "butted" or pushed right over the cliff.
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This movement was very religiously oriented so I would ask if other black clergymen and churches should have "butted" out as well unless they were paying taxes.
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This is an incident that would have gotten much less attention had he not butted into a situation that didn't involve him.
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