英和和英

名詞

butt end (plural butt ends)

1. The thick end of something.
   • 2006, “Rosetta Stoned”, performed by Tool:

     Then the X-Files being
     Looking like some kind of blue-green Jackie Chan with Isabella Rossellini lips
     And breath that reeked of vanilla Chig Champa
     Did a slo-mo Matrix descent out of the butt-end of the banana vessel
     And hovered above my bug-eyes, my gaping jaw

   • 1934, Ernest Bramah, The Bravo of London:

     With the butt end of an admonitory pencil he indicated the unopened trap.

2. (by extension) The bread heel.
3. The windowless end of a building.
   • 1914, Ernest Bramah, Max Carrados:

     Opposite the signal the line on one side is shut in by a high blank wall; on the other side are houses, but coming below the butt-end of a scullery the signal does not happen to be visible from any road or from any window.