What is the name meaning of BUTT. Phrases containing BUTT
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BUTT
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English
English : nickname for someone with some fancied resemblance to a bittern, perhaps in the booming quality of the voice, from Middle English, Old French butor ‘bittern’ (a word of obscure etymology).English and German : metonymic occupational name for a dairyman or seller of butter, from Old English butere ‘butter’, Middle High German buter.German : possibly a short form of any of the various compound names formed with Butter ‘butter’ (see 2).
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English
English : variant spelling of Buttery.
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English
English : variant spelling of Butler.German : occupational name for a village tavern owner, from French bouteillier ‘butler’.Respelling of the German habitational name Buttlar, from a place so named in Thuringia.
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English
English : reduced form of Buttery.
Boy/Male
Shakespearean
King Henry the Eighth' Doctor Butts, physician to the King.
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English
English : habitational name from a place named Butterwick, for example in County Durham, Lincolnshire, North Yorkshire, and North Lincolnshire. The place name is from Old English butere ‘butter’ + wīc ‘farmstead’.William Buttrick came from Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey, England, to Concord, MA, in 1640.
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English : topographic name for someone who lived near a place used for archery practice, from Middle English butte ‘mark for archery’, ‘target’, ‘goal’. In the Middle Ages archery practice was a feudal obligation, and every settlement had its practice area.English : topographic name from Middle English butte ‘strip of land abutting on a boundary’, ‘short strip or ridge at right angles to other strips in a common field’.English : from Middle English butte, bott ‘butt’, ‘cask’, applied as a metonymic occupational name for a cooper or as a nickname possibly for a heavy drinker or for a large, fat man.English : from a Middle English personal name, But(t), of unknown origin, perhaps originally a nickname meaning ‘short and stumpy’, and akin to late Middle English butt ‘thick end’, ‘stump’, ‘buttock’ (of Germanic origin).German and English : in both Middle Low German and Middle English the word but(te) denoted various types of marine fish, originally a fish with a blunt head, for example halibut (German Heilbutt) or turbot (German Steinbutt), and the surname may in some cases be a metonymic occupational name for a seller of fish or salt fish.Kashmiri : variant of Bhatt.Robert Butt came from Kent, England, to NC in 1640.
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English
English : patronymic from Butt 3.
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English
English : from Anglo-Norman French boterie ‘buttery’ (Late Latin botaria, a derivative of bota ‘cask’), hence a metonymic occupational name for the keeper of a buttery. The term originally denoted a store for liquor but soon came to mean a store for provisions in general.
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English
English : unexplained; possibly a variant spelling of Butt.
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English and German (Buttermann)
English and German (Buttermann) : occupational name for a dairyman or seller of dairy produce (see Butter 2).
Boy/Male
Tamil
Fresh butter, One who takes pleasure in new joys
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German and Dutch
German and Dutch : from Middle Low German, knÅp, Middle Dutch cnoop, cnop(pe) ‘swelling’, ‘lump’, ‘knob’, ‘button’, ‘glob’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a maker of buttons, normally of horn; a nickname for a small, rotund man; or a topographic name for someone who lived by a rounded hillock.English : from Middle English knop(pe) ‘knob’, ‘protuberance’, presumably applied as a nickname for someone with a noticeable wart or carbuncle or with knobbly knees or elbows, or possibly to someone who was small and chubby.Jewish (Ashkenazic) : variant of Knop 3.
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English
English : habitational name from either of two places called Butterley, in Derbyshire and Herefordshire, or from Butterleigh in Devon. All are named with Old English butere ‘butter’ + lēah ‘pasture’.
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English
English : variant of Flanders.Anglicized form of Dutch Vlinder, a nickname from vlinder ‘butterfly’.
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English, German, and Dutch
English, German, and Dutch : variant spelling of Knopp.Polish : occupational name for a weaver, Polish knap (see Knapik).Jewish (Ashkenazic) : metonymic occupational name from Yiddish knop ‘button’ (see Knopf).
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English
English : patronymic from Butter 1.English : occupational name for a servant working in a wine cellar, Norman French boterie (see Buttery), with the Middle English genitive -s.German : variant of Butter 2.
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English
English : metonymic occupational name for a maker or seller of buttons, from Old French bo(u)ton ‘knob’, ‘lump’, specialized to mean ‘button’. Compare Butner.
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English
English : topographic name for someone who lived by a pasture for cattle or at a dairy farm, or a habitational name from a place named Butterfield (for example in West Yorkshire), from Old English butere ‘butter’ + feld ‘open country’.Benjamin Butterfield came to Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1638. John Butterfield (1801–69) was born in Berne, NY, and founded an express company that merged with other companies to form the American Express Company (1850).
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English (Lancashire and Yorkshire)
English (Lancashire and Yorkshire) : habitational name from places named Butterworth in Lancashire (near Rochdale) and in West Yorkshire. Both are so named with Old English butere ‘butter’ + worð ‘enclosure’. The surname is recorded from an early date in each of these two places; it probably arose independently in each.
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n.
A boy servant, or page, -- in allusion to the buttons on his livery.
v. i.
To be fastened by a button or buttons; as, the coat will not button.
n.
A catch, of various forms and materials, used to fasten together the different parts of dress, by being attached to one part, and passing through a slit, called a buttonhole, in the other; -- used also for ornament.
n.
To fasten with a button or buttons; to inclose or make secure with buttons; -- often followed by up.
v. t.
To hold at the button or buttonhole; to detain in conversation to weariness; to bore; as, he buttonholed me a quarter of an hour.
v. t.
To support with a buttress; to prop; to brace firmly.
n.
A disk of bone, wood, or other material, which is made into a button by covering it with cloth.
n.
See Buttonwood.
v. t.
To unite by a butt weld.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Button
n.
The Platanus occidentalis, or American plane tree, a large tree, producing rough balls, from which it is named; -- called also buttonball tree, and, in some parts of the United States, sycamore. The California buttonwood is P. racemosa.
n.
The hole or loop in which a button is caught.
a.
Ornamented with a large number of buttons.
imp. & p. p.
of Buttress
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Buttress
imp. & p. p.
of Button