butt

name

Etymology: * As an English surname, from Middle English butte (“target, goal”), from French but (“target, aim”). * Also as an English surname, from butte (“isolated hill”). * Also as an English surname, from butt (sense 3) (“cask, bottle”). * Also as an English surname, from a nickname related to butt (sense 1) (“thick end”). * As an English and German surname, from butt (sense 4) (“type of flounder”). * As a Kashmiri surname, spelling variant of Bhatt.

1. A surname.
2. A surname.
3. A surname.

noun

1. Synonym of butty (“a friend or buddy”).

   “2025, Eleri Griffiths, Woman goes viral after delivery photo catches her in just a towel (BBC News) https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2p0n73zmro "He looks up, laughs as he sees the way I'm looking - soaking wet and in a towel - takes a full-blown picture, and just walks off. "I'm like, 'cheers butt'," she added.”

verb

Etymology: 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.

1. To strike bluntly, particularly with the head.

   “Two harmless lambs are butting one the other.”

2. To strike bluntly with the head.

   “Rams butt at other males during mating season.”

3. To cut in line (in front of someone).

   “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.”