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Synonyms for butting

Grammar : Noun, verb
Spell : buht-ing
Phonetic Transcription : ˈbʌt ɪŋ

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Définition of butting

Origin :
  • "thick end," c.1400, butte, which probably is related to Middle Dutch and Dutch bot, Low German butt "blunt, dull," Old Norse bauta (see beat (v.)). Or related somehow to Old English buttuc "end, small piece of land," and Old Norse butr "short." In sense of "human posterior" it is recorded from mid-15c. Meaning "remainder of a smoked cigarette" first recorded 1847.
  • noun buttocks
  • verb bang up against with head
  • verb touch, adjoin
Example sentences :
  • Nobody must tell me I'm a meddler, butting in where I have no business.
  • Extract from : « The Woman Thou Gavest Me » by Hall Caine
  • I knew they didn't want me butting in while they planned their race.
  • Extract from : « Marjorie Dean, College Sophomore » by Pauline Lester
  • Manager Strutt, and Manager Butt, were strutting and butting each other.
  • Extract from : « Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. » by Pierce Egan
  • Forgive me butting into your affairs, but naturally I'm rather hazed.
  • Extract from : « The Book of All-Power » by Edgar Wallace
  • Do you see who's standing there butting in on the private talk of two gents?
  • Extract from : « Blow The Man Down » by Holman Day
  • It was almost a week before Snowball felt like butting anybody.
  • Extract from : « The Tale of Snowball Lamb » by Arthur Bailey
  • She knew that poise of his head, as if butting at something.
  • Extract from : « Beyond » by John Galsworthy
  • He can break open a door by butting it with his head, and the door is the only sufferer.
  • Extract from : « In Court and Kampong » by Hugh Clifford
  • She felt as if she were butting her head against a stone wall.
  • Extract from : « Brand Blotters » by William MacLeod Raine
  • This he handed up to me, and it was not much the worse for the butting it had got.
  • Extract from : « A Voyage round the World » by W.H.G. Kingston

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