Meaning

4 senses

  1. To join at the butt, end, or outward extremity; to terminate; to be bounded; to abut.

  2. (transitive)To strike bluntly, particularly with the head.

    бода́тьbodátʹ, бодну́тьbodnútʹ

  3. (intransitive)To strike bluntly with the head.

    Rams butt at other males during mating season.

    to strike, thrust or shove against

  4. (Canada, Eastern, intransitive, transitive)To cut in line (in front of someone).

    Teacher! He just butted me!

Examples

218 sentences

  1. I never tried to butt in.

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  2. Why do you always butt in?

    ruПочему ты постоянно встреваешь? — sharptoothed

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  3. Tom doesn't want Mary butting in.

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  4. There were soggy cigarette butts in the can.

    deIn der Tonne waren feuchte Zigarettenstummel. — Yorwba

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  5. The cause of the fire was his cigarette butt.

    ruПричиной пожара был его окурок. — afyodor

    deDie Ursache des Brandes war sein Zigarettenstummel. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

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Translations

4 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
(transitive) to strike bluntly:

Origin

From Middle English but, butte (“goal, mark, butt of land”), from Old English byt, bytt (“

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”).

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”). Cognate with Old English bēatan (“to beat”). More at beat.

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Forms

butts, butting, butted, butted
Base formbutt · to butt
3rd person singularbutts
Present participlebutting
Past simplebutted
Past participlebutted

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theybutt
he, she, itbutts

Past simpleLesson

all personsbutted

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave butted
he, she, ithas butted

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill butt

Phrasal verbs

3 phrasal verbs

Synonyms

8 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

11 related words
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Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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