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English
Adverb
full butt (not comparable)
- (colloquial, idiomatic, dated) headfirst with full force
1692, Roger L’Estrange, “ (please specify the fable number.) (please specify the name of the fable.)”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: , London: R Sare, Took, M Gillyflower, A & J Churchil, and J Hindmarsh.">…], →OCLC:Two Whimsical Chimeras, that were abroad upon Adventure, happen'd to encounter, head to head, full-Butt, upon the way
1837, Frederick Marryat, Snarleyyow, or, The dog fiend:The corporal ran full butt at the lieutenant.
1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Poison Belt Being an Account of another Adventure of Prof. George E. Challenger, Lord John Roxton, Prof. Summerlee and Mr. E. D. Malone, the discoverers of “The Lost World”">…], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:"Now, Challenger, it's up to you to tell us where we are. We ain't nervous folk, as you know well; but when it comes to makin' a week-end visit and finding you've run full butt into the Day of Judgment, it wants a bit of explainin'."