butt
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Is butt a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (countable) The larger or thicker end of something; the blunt end, in distinction from the sharp or narrow endExamples: "Get up off your butt and get to work."CanadaCumbriaPhilippinesUScountableslang
2. (countable) The larger or thicker end of something; the blunt end, in distinction from the sharp or narrow endExamples: "I can see your butt."CanadaCumbriaPhilippinesUScountableslang
3. (countable) The larger or thicker end of something; the blunt end, in distinction from the sharp or narrow endExamples: "Get your butt to the car."; "We can't chat today. I have to get my butt to work before I'm late."CanadaCumbriaPhilippinesUScountablemetonymicallyslang
4. (countable) The larger or thicker end of something; the blunt end, in distinction from the sharp or narrow endcountable
5. (countable) The waste end of anything.Examples: "I walked around, picking butts from the street."countableslang
6. (countable) The waste end of anything.Examples: "c. 1850-1860, Alexander Mansfield Burrill, A New Law Dictionary and Glossary The hay was growing upon headlands and butts in cornfields."countable
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To strike bluntly, particularly with the head.Examples: "Two harmless lambs are butting one the other."transitive
2. (intransitive) To strike bluntly with the head.Examples: "Rams butt at other males during mating season."intransitive
3. (transitive, intransitive, eastern Canada, parts of the northeastern US) To cut in line (in front of someone).Examples: "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."CanadaEasternintransitivetransitive
noun (English)
1. (English units) An English measure of capacity for liquids, containing 126 wine gallons which is one-half tun.Examples: "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. –"Synonyms: pipe
noun (English)
1. (Northern England) Any of various flatfish such as sole, plaice or turbotNorthern-England
noun (English)
1. (dated, West Country and Ireland) A heavy two-wheeled cart.IrelandWest-Countrydated
2. (dated, West Country and Ireland) A three-wheeled cart resembling a wheelbarrow.IrelandWest-Countrydated
Definition source: Wiktionary