butt

• n. 屁股；烟头；笑柄；靶垛；粗大的一端
• vt. 以头抵撞；碰撞
• n. (Butt)人名；(英)巴特；(俄、德、印、巴基)布特

词源同beat, 击，打。引申义用头顶，用头撞。

1. thick end of the handle

2. a victim of ridicule or pranks

3. 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?"

4. sports equipment consisting of an object set up for a marksman or archer to aim at

5. finely ground tobacco wrapped in paper; for smoking

6. a joint made by fastening ends together without overlapping

7. a large cask (especially one holding a volume equivalent to 2 hogsheads or 126 gallons)

8. the small unused part of something (especially the end of a cigarette that is left after smoking)

butt

butt: There are no fewer than four distinct words butt in English. The oldest, ‘hit with the head’ [12], comes via Anglo-Norman buter from Old French boter. This can be traced back through Vulgar Latin *bottāre ‘thrust’ (source of English button) to a prehistoric Germanic *buttan. Old French boter produced a derivative boteret ‘thrusting’, whose use in the phrase ars boterez ‘thrusting arch’ was the basis of English buttress [13]. Butt ‘barrel’ [14] comes via Anglo-Norman but and Old French bot or bout from late Latin buttis ‘cask’ (a diminutive form of which was the basis of English bottle).

A derivative of the Anglo-Norman form was buterie ‘storeroom for casks of alcohol’, from which English gets buttery ‘food shop in a college’ [14]. Butt ‘target’ [14] probably comes from Old French but ‘goal, shooting target’, but the early English sense ‘mound on which a target is set up’ suggests association also with French butte ‘mound, knoll’ (which was independently borrowed into English in the 19th century as a term for the isolated steep-sided hills found in the Western states of the USA). Butt ‘thick end’ [15], as in ‘rifle butt’ and ‘cigarette butt’, appears to be related to other Germanic words in the same general semantic area, such as Low German butt ‘blunt’ and Middle Dutch bot ‘stumpy’, and may well come ultimately from the same base as produced buttock [13]. (The colloquial American sense of butt, ‘buttocks’, originated in the 15th century.) The verb abut [15] comes partly from Anglo- Latin abuttāre, a derivative of hutta ‘ridge or strip of land’, which may be related to English butt ‘thick end’, and partly from Old French aboter, a derivative of boter, from which English gets butt ‘hit with the head’.
=> button, buttress; bottle, butler, butte, début; buttock, abut

butt (n.1)

"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.

butt (n.2)

"liquor barrel," late 14c., from Anglo-French but and Old French bot "barrel, wineskin" (14c., Modern French botte), from Late Latin buttis "cask" (see bottle (n.)). Cognate with Spanish and Portuguese bota, Italian botte. Usually a cask holding 108 to 140 gallons, or roughly two hogsheads, but the measure varied greatly.

butt (n.3)

"target of a joke," 1610s, originally "target for shooting practice" (mid-14c.), from Old French but "aim, goal, end, target (of an arrow, etc.)," 13c., which seems to be a fusion of Old French words for "end" (bout) and "aim, goal" (but), both ultimately from Germanic. The latter is from Frankish *but "stump, stock, block," or some other Germanic source (compare Old Norse butr "log of wood"), which would connect it with butt (n.1).

butt (v.)

"hit with the head," c. 1200, from Anglo-French buter, from Old French boter "to push, shove, knock; to thrust against," from Frankish or another Germanic source (compare Old Norse bauta, Low German boten "to strike, beat"), from Proto-Germanic *butan, from PIE root *bhau- "to strike" (see batter (v.)). Related: Butted; butting. To butt in "rudely intrude" is American English, attested from 1900.

butt (n.4)

"flat fish," c. 1300, a general Germanic name applied to various kinds of flat fishes; compare Old Swedish but "flatfish," German Butte, Dutch bot, perhaps ultimately related to butt (n.1). "Hence butt-woman, who sells these, a fish-wife." [OED]

How can I explain if you keep butting in?

你一直插嘴，我还怎么解释？

牛津词典

‘Is that normal? ’ Josie butted in.

“那是正常的吗？”乔西插了一句。

牛津词典

I didn't ask you to butt in on my private business.

我没请你干预我的私事。

牛津词典

Butt out, Neil! This is none of your business.

不许插手，尼尔！这不关你的事。

牛津词典

a rifle butt

步枪的枪托

牛津词典

a water butt

集雨桶

牛津词典

Get off your butt and do some work!

起来干点活儿吧！

牛津词典

Get your butt over here! (= Come here!)

过来！

牛津词典

a butt from his head

被他的头撞的一下

牛津词典

She was the butt of some very unkind jokes.

她受到了刻薄的嘲弄。

牛津词典

Frieda grinned, pinching him on the butt.

弗里达咧嘴笑了，捏了捏他的屁股。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

Troops used tear gas and rifle butts to break up the protests...

军队使用催泪瓦斯和枪托驱散示威者。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

Your left hand should be wrapped fairly firmly around the butt end of the club.

你的左手应该紧紧握住棒子较粗的一端。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

He dropped his cigarette butt into the street below...

他把烟头扔到下面的街道上。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

He paused to stub out the butt of his cigar.

他停下来，踩灭了手中的烟头。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

He is still the butt of cruel jokes about his humble origins.

他仍然因出身低微而被人无情嘲笑。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

Lawrence kept on butting me but the referee did not warn him.

劳伦斯不停地用头撞我，但是裁判并没有警告他。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

Kellys aren't meant to be the butt of the joke.

Kellys可没打算成为笑柄.

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I put a special tape the trigger and the butt.

我在扳机和手把上贴了特殊胶布.

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Now get the butt into your butt rest.

好,现在把钓竿柄插到钓竿座里去.

辞典例句

Poor John was the butt of all their jokes.

可怜的约翰总是成为他们开玩笑的对象.

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He was going to butt in when his mother darted a look of disapproval at him.

他刚要插嘴,妈妈瞥了他一眼.

《现代汉英综合大词典》

No one asked your opinion, so butt out.

没有人征求你的意见, 不要插嘴.

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You spend half your life working your butt off — and for what?

你拼命工作了半辈子——图个啥?

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