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The correct spelling is butt.
How to pronounce butt
/bʌt/
nounIPA: /bʌt/
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The correct spelling is butt. The larger or thicker end of something; the blunt end, in distinction from the sharp or narrow end For example: "Be careful in the pen, that ram can knock you down with a butt."
Usage Examples
“Be careful in the pen, that ram can knock you down with a butt.”
“Rams butt at other males during mating season.”
Meanings
noun
- 1.The larger or thicker end of something; the blunt end, in distinction from the sharp or narrow end
- 2.The waste end of anything
- 3.(generally) An end of something, often distinguished in some way from the other end.
- 4.A limit; a bound; a goal; the extreme bound; the end.
- 5.A push, thrust, or sudden blow, given by the head; a head butt.
verb
- 1.To join at the butt, end, or outward extremity; to terminate; to be bounded; to abut.
- 2.To strike bluntly, particularly with the head.
- 3.To strike bluntly with the head.
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