Past tense of butt
regular verb
The past tense of butt is butted. The past participle is also butted.
Forms of butt
| Base form (V1) | butt /bʌt/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | butted /ˈbʌtɪd/ |
| Past participle (V3) | butted /ˈbʌtɪd/ |
| Present participle | butting /ˈbʌtɪŋ/ |
| Third person singular | butts /bʌts/ |
Butted in a sentence
- Teacher! He just butted me!
- Missy gave a low, snuffly bark and butted my hand, effectively sliming it.2014, Sparkle Abbey, Fifty Shades of Greyhound. From the entry slime
- Hamblyn flew into a rage and butted Alec in the face.1998, Jock Barnes, Never a White Flag: The Memoirs of Jock Barnes, page 146. From the entry Liverpool kiss
- She had butted their way out of the Tenderloin district into a spacious uptown apartment.1992, Toni Morrison, Jazz, Vintage (2016), page 23. From the entry tenderloin
- John butted a cigarette in the ashtray, got out of the car with his twenty-four-ounce coffee and sausage eggwich.2018, Liam Sweeny, Street Whispers, unnumbered page. From the entry eggwich
Meaning of butt
- noun The buttocks or anus (used as a minced oath in idiomatic expressions; less objectionable than arse/ass).
- noun The whole buttocks and pelvic region that includes one's private parts.
- noun Body; self.
Questions about the past tense of butt
- What is the past tense of butt?
- The past tense of butt is butted.
- What is the past participle of butt?
- The past participle of butt is butted.
- Is butt a regular or irregular verb?
- Butt is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: butt (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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