butts

See also: Butts

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bʌts/
  • Rhymes: -ʌts

Noun

butts

  1. plural of butt

Verb

butts

  1. third-person singular simple present indicative of butt

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Etymology

From Middle English butte, 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.

Pronunciation

  • (early) IPA(key): /bʊts/
  • (late) IPA(key): /bots/[1]

Noun

butts

  1. The short drills in the angle of a field.[2]

References

  1. ^ Diarmaid Ó Muirithe (1990) “A Modern Glossary of the Dialect of Forth and Bargy”, in lrish University Review‎[1], volume 20, number 1, Edinburgh University Press, page 155
  2. ^ Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 136
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