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buttings

/ˈbʌtɪŋz/US[ˈbʌɾɪŋz]

buttings is the plural of butting.

Meaning of butting

Noun (1)

butting (plural buttings)

  1. An abuttal; a boundary.
    • Without buttings or boundings on any side.1709, William Beveridge, The Being, Love, and Other Attributes of God

Noun (2)

butting (plural buttings)

  1. The act of delivering a butt with the head.
    • […] when they grew up to adolescent muttonhood, it required all the prowess and interference of the papa sheep to prevent them from breaking each other's skulls by their constant tiltings and buttings.1841, Joseph Hewlett, Theodore Edward Hook, The Parish Clerk, volume 1, page 59

Questions about buttings

What is buttings the plural of?
Buttings is the plural of butting.
How do you pronounce buttings?
Buttings is pronounced /ˈbʌtɪŋz/.

Words near buttings in the dictionary

  1. butting
  2. butting heads
  3. butting in
  4. butting out
  5. butting up
  6. buttings
  7. Buttington
  8. buttinski
  9. buttinskies
  10. buttinskis
  11. buttinsky

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Adapted from Wiktionary: buttings (page history and authors); butting (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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