butt

verb
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Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they butt
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he / she / it butts
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past simple butted
🔊/ˈbʌtɪd/
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past participle butted
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-ing form butting
🔊/ˈbʌtɪŋ/
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Phrasal Verbs
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  1. butt somebody/something to hit or push somebody/something hard with your head(人)用头顶撞
  2. butt somebody/something if an animal butts somebody/something, it hits them or it hard with its horns and head (动物)用头(或角)顶
  3. Word Originverb Middle English: from Old French boter, of Germanic origin.

butt

noun
🔊/bʌt/
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Idioms
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  1. the thick end of a weapon or tool(武器或工具的)粗大的一端
    • a rifle butt步枪的枪托
  2. the part of a cigarette or cigar that is left after it has been smoked烟蒂;烟头
    • an ashtray full of cigarette butts装满烟头的烟灰缸
  3. (British English) a large round container for storing or collecting liquids(盛液体的)大桶
    • a water butt集雨桶
  4. (especially North American English, informal) the part of the body that you sit on屁股 synonym buttocks
    • Get off your butt and do some work!起来干点活儿吧!🔊🔊
    • Get your butt over here! (= Come here!)过来!🔊🔊
  5. the act of hitting somebody with your head(头的)顶撞
    • a butt from his head被他的头撞的一下
    see also headbutt
  6. Word Originnoun sense 5 Middle English: from Old French boter, of Germanic origin. to be the butt of something. Middle English (originally referring to an archery target or range): from Old French but, of unknown origin; perhaps influenced by French butte ‘rising ground’. noun senses 1 to 2 and noun sense 4 late Middle English: apparently related to Dutch bot ‘stumpy’, also to buttock. noun sense 3 late Middle English: from Old French bot, from late Latin buttis.
Idioms
be the butt of something
  1. to be the person or thing that other people often joke about or criticize受到嘲讽(或批评);是笑柄(或话柄等) synonym target
    • She was the butt of some very unkind jokes.她受到了刻薄的嘲弄。🔊🔊
bust your butt/chops/hump (doing something/to do something) (North American English, informal)
(also bust a gut British and North American English, informal, bust your ass North American English, taboo, slang)
  1. (informal) to make a great effort to do something屁股
    • These guys were busting their butts on the field, trying to excel at athletics.这些家伙在球场上砸屁股,试图在田径运动中脱颖而出。
    • I busted my chops to get into law school.我砍掉了印章,进了法学院。
    • It’s a problem which nobody is going to bust a gut trying to solve.这是一个没人愿意解决的直截了当的问题。
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a pain in the butt/ass (North American English also)
(British English also a pain in the arse/backside)
(also a pain in the neck)
  1. (informal) a person or thing that is very annoying极讨厌的人(或事物)
    • That man's a pain in the butt!那个男人是个屁股痛!