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full butt

full butt adverb: headfirst with full force.

Adverb

full butt (not comparable)

  1. (colloquial, dated, idiomatic) headfirst with full force
    • Two Whimsical Chimeras, that were abroad upon Adventure, happen'd to encounter, head to head, full-Butt, upon the way1692, Roger L’Estrange, “ (please specify the fable number.) (please specify the name of the fable.)”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC
    • The corporal […] ran full butt at the lieutenant.1837, Frederick Marryat, Snarleyyow, or, The dog fiend

Words formed from full butt

  • → Welsh: ffwl-bwt
  • ffwr-bwt

Questions about full butt

What does full butt mean?
Full butt means headfirst with full force.
What part of speech is full butt?
Full butt is an adverb.

Words near full butt in the dictionary

  1. full bore
  2. full breakfast
  3. full breakfasts
  4. full bunger
  5. full bungers
  6. full butt
  7. full choke
  8. full chokes
  9. full circle
  10. full circles
  11. full clew

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