Dictionary Entry
butt
butt is a 4-letter English word with 18 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Alt. of But. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
4 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 8 · 18 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
Alt. of But
- 2intransitive verb
To join at the butt, end, or outward extremity; to terminate; to be bounded; to abut.
- 3intransitive verb
To thrust the head forward; to strike by thrusting the head forward, as an ox or a ram. [See Butt.]
- 4transitive verb
To strike by thrusting the head against; to strike with the head.
- 5noun
A large cask or vessel for wine or beer. It contains two hogsheads.
- 6noun
The common English flounder.
- 7noun
thick end of the handle
- 8noun
the small unused part of something (especially the end of a cigarette that is left after smoking)
Synonyms
- 9noun
a large cask (especially one holding a volume equivalent to 2 hogsheads or 126 gallons)
- 10noun
a joint made by fastening ends together without overlapping
- 11noun
finely ground tobacco wrapped in paper; for smoking
- 12noun
sports equipment consisting of an object set up for a marksman or archer to aim at
Synonyms
- 13noun
the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
"he deserves a good kick in the butt"
"are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?"
- 14noun
a victim of ridicule or pranks
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- 15noun
the part of a plant from which the roots spring or the part of a stalk or trunk nearest the roots
- 16verb
to strike, thrust or shove against
"He butted his sister out of the way"
"The goat butted the hiker with his horns"
Synonyms
- 17verb
lie adjacent to another or share a boundary
"Canada adjoins the U.S."
"England marches with Scotland"
- 18verb
place end to end without overlapping
"The frames must be butted at the joints"
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