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butt-women

butt-women is the plural of butt-woman.

Meaning of butt-woman

Noun

butt-woman (plural butt-women)

  1. (UK, obsolete) A female lay church worker who tends the pews in a church; a sextoness.
    • My thoughts always revert to the angry butt-woman when the second chapter of St. James' Epistle is read in its ordinary course.1862, Margaret Goodman, Experiences of an English Sister of Mercy, London: Smith and Elder, page 26

Questions about butt-women

What is butt-women the plural of?
Butt-women is the plural of butt-woman.

Words near butt-women in the dictionary

  1. butt-weld
  2. butt-welded
  3. butt-welding
  4. butt-welds
  5. butt-woman
  6. butt-women
  7. Buttaba
  8. Buttai
  9. buttal
  10. buttals
  11. buttass

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