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Yes. The word butt is a Scrabble US word. The word butt is worth 6 points in Scrabble:

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4-letter words (1 found)

BUTT,

3-letter words (3 found)

BUT,TUB,TUT,

2-letter words (1 found)

UT,

You can make 5 words from butt according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

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butt ubtt btut tbut utbt tubt butt ubtt btut tbut utbt tubt bttu tbtu bttu tbtu ttbu ttbu uttb tutb uttb tutb ttub ttub

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Definitions and meaning of butt

butt

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: bŭt, IPA(key): /bʌt/
  • (Northern England) IPA(key): /bʊt/
  • Rhymes: -ʌt
  • Homophone: but

Etymology 1

From Middle English but, butte (“goal, mark, butt of land”), from Old English byt, bytt (“small piece of land”) and *butt (attested in diminutive Old English buttuc (“end, small piece of land”) > English buttock), from Proto-West Germanic *butt, from Proto-Germanic *buttaz (“end, piece”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰudʰnós (“bottom”), later thematic variant of Proto-Indo-European *bʰudʰmḗn ~ *bʰudʰn-, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ- (“deep”). Cognate with Norwegian butt (“stump, block”), Icelandic bútur (“piece, fragment”), Low German butt (“blunt, clumsy”). Influenced by Old French but, butte (“but, mark”), ultimately from the same Germanic source. Compare also Albanian bythë (“buttocks”), Ancient Greek πυθμήν (puthmḗn, “bottom of vessel”), Latin fundus (“bottom”) and Sanskrit बुध्न (budhná, “bottom”), from the same Proto-Indo-European root. Related to bottom, boot.

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Noun

butt (plural butts)

  1. (countable) The larger or thicker end of something; the blunt end, in distinction from the sharp or narrow end
    1. (Canada, US, Philippines, slang) The buttocks (used as a minced oath in idiomatic expressions; less objectionable than arse/ass).
      1. (slang) The whole buttocks and pelvic region that includes one's private parts.
      3. (slang, metonymically) Body; self.
    2. (leather trades) The thickest and stoutest part of tanned oxhides, used for soles of boots, harness, trunks.
  2. (countable) The waste end of anything.
    2. (slang) A used cigarette.
    3. A piece of land left unplowed at the end of a field.
      • c. 1850-1860, Alexander Mansfield Burrill, A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
        The hay was growing upon headlands and butts in cornfields.
    4. (obsolete, West Country) Hassock.
    5. (US) A crust end-piece of a loaf of bread.
      Synonyms: boot, heel
  3. (countable, generally) An end of something, often distinguished in some way from the other end.
    1. The end of a firearm opposite to that from which a bullet is fired.
    2. (lacrosse) The plastic or rubber cap used to cover the open end of a lacrosse stick's shaft in order to reduce injury.
    3. The portion of a half-coupling fastened to the end of a hose.
    4. The end of a connecting rod or other like piece, to which the boxing is attached by the strap, cotter, and gib.
    5. (mechanical) A joint where the ends of two objects come squarely together without scarfing or chamfering.
      Synonym: butt joint
    6. (carpentry) A kind of hinge used in hanging doors, etc., so named because it is attached to the inside edge of the door and butts against the casing, instead of on its face, like the strap hinge; also called butt hinge.
    7. (shipbuilding) The joint where two planks in a strake meet.
    8. The blunt back part of an axehead or large blade. Also called the poll.
  4. (countable) A limit; a bound; a goal; the extreme bound; the end.
    1. A mark to be shot at; a target.
    3. (usually as "butt of (a) joke") A person at whom ridicule, jest, or contempt is directed.
      Synonym: laughing stock
    4. The hut or shelter of the person who attends to the targets in rifle practice.
Usage notes
  • The word butt for "buttocks" is considered less vulgar than "arse or ass", but still not as polite as saying bottom or rear end.
Translations

Verb

butt (third-person singular simple present butts, present participle butting, simple past and past participle butted)

  1. To join at the butt, end, or outward extremity; to terminate; to be bounded; to abut.
Derived terms
  • butt-weld, buttweld
Derived terms
See also
  • (buttocks): callipygian, callipygous, dasypygal

Etymology 2

From Middle English butten, from Anglo-Norman buter, boter (“to push, butt, strike”), from Frankish *bautan (“to hit, beat”), from Proto-Germanic *bautaną (“to beat, push”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewd- (“to beat, push, strike”). Cognate with Old English bēatan (“to beat”). More at beat.

Verb

butt (third-person singular simple present butts, present participle butting, simple past and past participle butted)

  1. (transitive) To strike bluntly, particularly with the head.
  2. (intransitive) To strike bluntly with the head.
  3. (transitive, eastern Canada, parts of the northeastern US) To cut in line (in front of someone).
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Noun

butt (plural butts)

  1. A push, thrust, or sudden blow, given by the head; a head butt.
  2. A thrust in fencing.
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Etymology 3

From Middle English bit, bitte, bytte, butte (“leather bottle”), from Old English bytt, byt and Old French boute (“cask”) and other etymologies on this page, all from Late Latin buttis.

Noun

butt (plural butts)

  1. (English units) An English measure of capacity for liquids, containing 126 wine gallons which is one-half tun; equivalent to the pipe.
  3. A wooden cask for storing wine, usually containing 126 gallons.
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Etymology 4

From Middle English but, butte, botte (“flounder; plaice; turbot”), possibly derived from sense 1 (“blunt end”), meaning "blunt-headed fish." Compare Dutch bot and the second element of English halibut.

Cognate with West Frisian bot, German Low German Butt, German Butt, Butte, Swedish butta.

Alternative forms

  • but

Noun

butt (plural butts)

  1. (Northern England) Any of various flatfish such as sole, plaice or turbot
Derived terms
  • halibut
Translations

Etymology 5

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

butt (plural butts)

  1. (dated, West Country and Ireland) A heavy two-wheeled cart.
  2. (dated, West Country and Ireland) A three-wheeled cart resembling a wheelbarrow.
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Etymology 6

Originally apparently a less-desired cut, named either due to its often being packed in butts (“casks”) for storage and shipping, or from the use of butt to refer to "the larger or thicker end of something, in distinction from the sharp or narrow end" or "the waste end".

Noun

butt (plural butts)

  1. The shoulder of an animal, especially the portion above the picnic, as a cut of meat.

References

  • Wright, Joseph (1898) The English Dialect Dictionary‎[1], volume 1, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pages 463–465
  • Patricia T. O'Conner, Stewart Kellerman quoting Steve Hartman Keiser (2021 December 27) “Cut, butt, skip, or ditch in line?”, in Grammarphobia‎[2], archived from the original on 2023-05-21: “He says "budding" (or "butting") "appears to have a wider general distribution than budging" and "can be found in eastern Canada, upstate New York (where budging is also attested), Pennsylvania, Maryland, and northern Ohio."”

Further reading

  • “butt”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
  • “butt”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Middle Low German butt, bott.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bʉt/

Adjective

butt (neuter singular butt, definite singular and plural butte, comparative buttere, indefinite superlative buttest, definite superlative butteste)

  1. blunt (not sharp)
  2. (vinkel) obtuse (angle between 90 and 180 degrees)

References

  • “butt” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Middle Low German butt, bott.

Adjective

butt (neuter singular butt, definite singular and plural butte, comparative buttare, indefinite superlative buttast, definite superlative buttaste)

  1. blunt (not sharp)
  2. (vinkel) obtuse (angle between 90 and 180 degrees)

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

butt

  1. past participle of bu

References

  • “butt” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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