butt
意味
- …を頭(角)で突く(押す)
- 頭(角)で突く(押す)
- 頭(角)で突くこと(押すこと),頭突き
- あざけり(批評などの)的;笑いもの
- (武器・道具の)太いほうの端
- 残片
- (ぶどう酒などの)大だる,一たる
例文
The cause of the fire was his cigarette butt.
火事の原因は彼のタバコの火の不始末だ。
Lois always butts into our conversation.
ロイはいつも僕たちの話に口をはさむんだ。
Sheesh, you've even got cigarette butts scattered around.
もう・・・タバコの吸殻まで散らばってるし。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English but, butte (“goal, mark, butt of land”), 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, from Proto-Germanic *buttaz (“end, piece”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰudʰnós (“bottom”), later thematic variant of Proto-Indo-European *bʰudʰmḗn ~ *bʰudʰn-, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ- (“deep”). Cognate with Norwegian butt (“stump, block”), Faroese buttur (“wooden block”), Icelandic bútur (“piece, fragment”), Low German butt (“blunt, clumsy”).
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