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outbutt

outbutt verb: to butt with greater force than; to best in a butting match.

Verb

outbutt (third-person singular simple present outbutts, present participle outbutting, simple past and past participle outbutted)

  1. To butt with greater force than; to best in a butting match.
    • Old rams can almost always outbutt young ones but the young ones can run faster and few deaths occur.1945 April 16, “Bighorn Sheep Trapping”, in Life
    • […] and finally a cigar-drummer down at the saloon offered him a two-gallon jug of whiskey if he could outbutt the saloonkeeper's old billy-goat out in the backyard.1957, H. H. Davis, The Distant Music, Popular Library, published 1957, page 254

Forms of outbutt

third-person singular presentoutbutts
present participleoutbutting
past participleoutbutted
pastoutbutted

Origin of outbutt

From out- + butt.

Questions about outbutt

What does outbutt mean?
Outbutt means to butt with greater force than; to best in a butting match.
What part of speech is outbutt?
Outbutt is a verb.
What is the past tense of outbutt?
The past tense of outbutt is outbutted.

Words near outbutt in the dictionary

  1. outbustling
  2. outbutcher
  3. outbutchered
  4. outbutchering
  5. outbutchers
  6. outbutt
  7. outbutted
  8. outbutting
  9. outbutts
  10. outbuy
  11. outbuying

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