full butt

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

With sudden collision. The figure is taken from the violent encounter of animals, such as rams or goats, which butt with their heads.


He and the babler, or talker, I told ye of, met full butt; and after a little staring one an other in the face, upon the encounter, the babler opened.--L'Estrange, Tr. of Quevedo.

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