Dictionary Entry

butt

Part of Speech: nounPronunciation: /bʌt/Used In Literature ↓

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

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Common Phrases

. buttend buttjoint buttjoints buttbutt cigarettebutt rifle

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Poetry examples for “butt”

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

Till the peasant cow shall butt the ‘Lion passant’
from his field.

Long worn out, and the roller made of stone:
Only the elm butt tops the nettles now.

a stone on each side of his head, giving it weight and
enabling him to butt a great deal harder.

The bald and bold blinking gold when all's done
Right rooting in the bare butt's wincing navel in the sight
of the sun.

His brow, as if in act to butt, and then.

Invites each passing stranger that can pay;
Where Calvert’s butt, and Parsons’ black champagne,
Regale the drabs and bloods of Drury-lane;

Invites each passing stranger that can pay--
Where Calvert’s butt, and Parsons’ black champagne,
Regale the drabs and bloods of Drury Lane--

And half the money would replenish
Their cellar's biggest butt with Rhenish deg.. deg.160
To pay this sum to a wandering fellow

And the bar has a flag of smut,
And a cat's in the water-butt--

Pismire crawling in a rut?
Or a spigot in a butt?
Thus I humm'd and ha'd awhile,