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English citations of outbutt

Verb: "to butt with greater force than; to best in a butting match"

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  • 1945 — "Bighorn Sheep Trapping", Life, 16 April 1945:
    Old rams can almost always outbutt young ones but the young ones can run faster and few deaths occur.
  • 1949 — H. O. Crisler, Modern Football: Fundamentals and Strategy, Whittlesey House (1949), page 30:
    He will usually succeed in this if the offensive men merely lock horns with him and try to outbutt him.
  • 1957 — H. H. Davis, The Distant Music, Popular Library (1957), page 254:
    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.
  • 1959 — The Sportsman's World, Henry Holt and Company (1959), page 106:
    They won't move off the rails; they pay no mind to whistles and bells, and sometimes a punchy old bull thinks he can outbutt a locomotive.
  • 1964 — Warren R. Young, "What ever happened to Dr. Ivy?", Life, 9 October 1964:
    Glancing out the window, his brother spotted a neighbor's billy goat squaring off with 6-year-old Andy. As he watched, a contest ensued and little Andy somehow outbutted the goat.
  • 1970 — Carroll Carroll, None of Your Business: Or, My life with J. Walter Thompson (Confessions of a Renegade Radio Writer), Cowles Book Company, Inc. (1970), page 60:
    His act was to let the goat butt him and then, as a finale, he outbutted the goat, skull to skull.
  • 1980 — Gene Perret, Hit or Miss Management: The World's First Organic, Natural, Holistic, Environmentally Sound Management Technique, J. P. Tarcher (1980), →ISBN, page 24:
    It's as if one day a knock-kneed ram accidentally outbutted all of the opposition and then had the power to declare that henceforth all contenders for the head of the herd must come from the knock-kneed school of leadership.
  • 1990 — John Kricher, Peterson First Guide to Dinosaurs, Houghton Mifflin Company (1990), →ISBN, page 80:
    Perhaps male pachycephalosaurs established their dominance by outbutting rivals.
  • 2007 — S. M. Stirling, The Sunrise Lands, Roc (2008), →ISBN, unnumbered page:
    "I remember how the Protector's knights cut us CORA folk up. It was like trying to outbutt a mean old bull.
  • 2008 — Stetson Kennedy, Grits & Grunts: Folkloric Key West, Pineapple Press (2008), →ISBN, page 186:
    Whereas Bunyan was a lumberjack in ten-league boots, John Henry a railroad roustabout who refused to let the steam hammer get him down, Old Pete a Tampa longshoreman who could outbutt a billy goat,

Verb: "to have a shapelier or more aesthetically pleasing buttocks than"

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  • 1972 — Dan Jenkins, Semi-Tough, Thunder's Mouth Press (2006), →ISBN, page 102:
    What she wore didn't detract from her physical beauty but made it better, and it frequently outbutted whatever was fashionable among women.
  • 2012 — Cindy Adams, "New York ready to gamble", New York Post, 26 July 2012:
    TV finally found two fake pearls who’ll outboob and outbutt Snooki.
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