butt
[noun]
Synonyms:
- end, haft, handle, hilt, shaft, shank, stock
- stub, fag end (informal), leftover, tip
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[noun]
target, Aunt Sally, dupe, laughing stock, victim
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[noun]
Synonyms:
- knock, bump, poke, prod, push, ram, shove, thrust
[verb]
Synonyms:
- butt in: interfere, chip in (informal), cut in, interrupt, intrude, meddle, put one's oar in, stick one's nose in
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(With or of the head or horns)
[noun]
cask, barrel

[TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲

I. butt¹ /bʌt/ noun [countable]
[Sense 1-2, 4-6: Date: 1400-1500; Origin: Origin unknown. ]
[Sense 3: Date: 1300-1400; Language: Old French; Origin: but 'target, goal, end']
[Sense 7: Date: 1400-1500; Language: Old French; Origin: botte]
[Sense 8: Date: 1500-1600; Origin: ⇒ butt²]

1. PART OF YOUR BODY American English informal the part of your body that you sit on Synonym : buttocks:
a baby’s soft little butt ⇒ be a pain in the butt at pain¹(3)

2. CIGARETTE the end of a cigarette after most of it has been smoked

3. be the butt of something to be the person or thing that other people often make jokes about:
Paul quickly became the butt of everyone’s jokes.

4. GUN the thick end of the handle of a gun:
a rifle butt

5. get your butt in/out/over etc American English spoken used to rudely tell someone to go somewhere or do something:
Kevin, get your butt over here!

6. work/play etc your butt off American English spoken to work, play etc very hard:
I worked my butt off in college.

7. CONTAINER British English a large round container for collecting or storing liquids:
a rainwater butt

8. HITTING WITH YOUR HEAD the act of hitting someone with your head

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

II. butt² verb [intransitive and transitive]
[Date: 1400-1500; Language: Old French; Origin: boter 'to push']

1. to hit or push against something or someone with your head

2. if an animal butts someone, it hits them with its horns
butt in phrasal verb

1. to interrupt a conversation rudely:
Stop butting in!

2. to become involved in a private situation that does not concern you
butt in on
They don’t want outsiders butting in on their decision-making.
butt out phrasal verb especially American English spoken
used to tell someone rudely that you do not want them to be involved in a conversation or situation:
This has nothing to do with you, so just butt out!

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲