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Slang louse up, screw up, Brit bollocks or ballocks up, US
bollix up; Taboo fuck up: He butchered the restoration of my
antique cabinet.
butt° n. target, end, object, prey, victim, dupe; gull, Colloq
pigeon, sucker; Brit Aunt Sally, Slang US and Canadian patsy:
He was always the butt of their jokes.
buttý v. 1 abut, join, meet: This wall butts up against my garage.
2 butt in or into. interfere, intrude, interrupt, Colloq US
kibitz; meddle: Please let me finish a sentence without butting
in. Don't butt into my affairs.
buttocks n. bottom, behind, derriŠre, seat, rear, rear end, backside,
posterior, hindquarters, fundament, Colloq Brit bum, arse , US
hinie, can, tush or tushy or tushie, tokus or tochis or tuchis,
keister or keester, butt, tail, prat, ass; Slang cheeks, duff:
A person with large buttocks should not wear tight shorts.
buttonhole
v. 1 corner, detain, accost, importune, waylay: A reporter
buttonholed one of the senators for details of the new tax bill.
--n. 2 corsage, US boutonniere or boutonniŠre: He wore a rose
for a buttonhole.
buttress v. sustain, support, strengthen, prop (up), brace, reinforce,
shore up: Huge beams were needed to buttress the walls after
the bombing.
buxom adj. 1 hearty, healthy, vigorous, lusty, attractive, comely,
plump, Colloq hefty: Sylvia was a buxom serving-wench at the
Bugle Horn. 2 busty, bosomy, chesty, well-endowed, big-busted:
The centrefolds in this magazine usually show quite buxom women.
buy v. 1 purchase; acquire, obtain, get, procure, gain, come by,
secure: Where did you buy that hat? 2 accept, allow, take,
believe, swallow, go for: Did you buy his story about having
his car stolen? 3 bribe, suborn, pay off, buy off, corrupt:
That customs man must have been bought or he wouldn't have let
the package through.
--n. 4 purchase, acquisition: We made a bad buy at the last