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butts

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English

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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butts

  1. plural of butt

Verb

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butts

  1. third-person singular simple present indicative of butt

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Etymology

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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.

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Noun

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butts

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

References

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  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