buttbuttin
/bʌtˈbʌ.tɪn/
buttbuttin is the deliberate misspelling of assassin.
Meaning of assassin
Noun
assassin (plural assassins)
- Someone who intentionally kills a person, especially a professional who kills a public or political figure.
- The hand that held the bond of so many jarring interests lay powerless beneath the pall. The perils of war had been about him, and the midnight assassin had watched his path; yet he died quietly in his bed.1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 233
- Any ruthless killer.
- A member of the Nizari Ismaili Muslim community of the Alamut Period.
- The Assassines, a nation depending of Phœnicia, are esteemed among the Mahometists of a soveraigne devotion and puritie of maners; they hold, that the readiest and shortest way to gaine Paradise, is to kill some one of a contrary religion[…].1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 29, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC
- An associated prime of a module.
Forms of buttbuttin
| plural | buttbuttins |
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Origin of buttbuttin
A modification of assassin by means of automated string substitution, replacing ass with butt.
Questions about buttbuttin
- What is buttbuttin the deliberate misspelling of?
- Buttbuttin is the deliberate misspelling of assassin.
- How do you pronounce buttbuttin?
- Buttbuttin is pronounced /bʌtˈbʌ.tɪn/.
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