Butt
proper nouncommon in dialogue
A surname. A surname from English.
proper noun
- 1
A surname. A surname from English.
- 2
A surname. A surname from German.
- 3
A surname. A surname from Kashmiri.
Etymology
* As an English surname, from Middle English butte (“target, goal”), from French but (“target, aim”). * Also as an English surname, from butte (“isolated hill”). * Also as an English surname, from butt (sense 3) (“cask, bottle”). * Also as an English surname, from a nickname related to butt (sense 1) (“thick end”). * As an English and German surname, from butt (sense 4) (“type of flounder”). * As a Kashmiri surname, spelling variant of Bhatt.
Forms
- plural
- Butts
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Butt · A surname. A surname from English.
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