“ If you can find a good, stout, willing butt—a butt who lends himself to nicknames, and has a temper as even as a billiard-table and as long as a tailor's bill—secure him at once and make him the nucleus of your crew. ”
Butt
Definition and stakes
The butt, primarily an English unit of liquid volume, equivalent to two hogsheads and ranging between 450 and 1,060 litres, reflects historical fluid measurements. Authors like Thomas Davidson defined it as a cask or a term for striking with the head, while R. C.
Lehmann metaphorically described it as a resilient crew member. Medical texts, such as Alexis Thomson’s Manual of Surgery, referenced it anatomically, highlighting its dual role in both measurement and physiology. This duality underscores its adaptability across practical, literary, and clinical contexts.
Quotes about “butt”
Various, Harper's Round Table, June 18, 1895
“ The butt should come up quickly and firmly to the shoulder, resting against the shoulder itself rather than the biceps or top of the arm, and you should acquire the habit, which can only come with practice, of getting it up quickly, steadily, and firmly the first time in the right place. ”
Thomas Davidson,
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary 1908…
(1908)
“ Butt, but, v.i. and v.t. to strike with the head, as a goat, &c.—n. a push with the head of an animal.—n. Butt′er, an animal that butts. [O. Fr. boter, to push, strike.] Butt, but, n. a large cask: a wine-butt = 126 gallons, a beer and sherry butt = 108 gallons. [Cf. Fr. botte, Sp. bota, Low L. butta.] Butt, but, n. a mark for archery practice: a mound behind musketry or artillery targets: one who is made the object of ridicule.—n. ”
William Duane, A military dictionary
“ The men are taught likewise to support arms at three motions, throwing the first and second nearly into one: at the first motion they seize the small of the butt, under the lock, with the right hand, bringing the butt in the front of the groin, and keeping the lock somewhat turned out: at the second, they bring the left arm under the cock: at the third, they quit the right hand. ”
Alexis Thomson,
Manual of Surgery, Sixth Edition…
(1921)
“ The patient complains of persistent aching and stiffness over the buttock, and sometimes extending down the lateral aspect of the thigh. The pain is aggravated by such movements as bring the affected muscles into action. ”
Harriet Camp Lounsbery, Making Good on Private Duty: Practical Hints to Graduate Nurses
“ When he is quite ready for the tub, grasp him firmly with the right hand, letting the buttocks rest in the palm of the hand, the fingers being outspread, and the thumb coming up almost to the pubic bone. ”
w:Sushruta, Sushruta Samhita, Volume 1 (1907)
“ Boils or ulcers, which appear in the regions of the buttocks (Sphik) , or about the anus, and the organs of of generation, or on the back, forehead, cheek, or lips, or in the region of the external ears, or on the testes or the abdomen, or in the cavity of the mouth, or about the nape of the neck, or above the clavicles, can be easily healed. ”
Aegineta Paulus, The seven books of Paulus Ægineta… (1844)
“ Having shaven the pubes and scrotum, unless the patient be a boy, we lay him in a supine posture upon a bench, and apply to his buttocks a cloth several times folded, and to the scrotum a sponge of considerable magnitude, and sitting at the left side of the patient, we give directions to an assistant sitting at his right side to draw the genital organs to the other side, and to draw up the skin of the scrotum to the abdomen. ”
Printed for the Society of Vice, The Pearl — The Sultan's Reverie
“ A splendid swelling mount an covered with long, black, curly hair, extending far over her beautiful belly, and some inches down on the inside of her thighs, most extraordinary large rounded buttocks, quite out of proportion to her size, but so exciting to behold and replete with voluptuous pleasure. ”
Unknown, The Sins of the Cities of the Plain (1881)
“ Their blows never relaxed; the small tips of the twigs cut round my buttocks till I was fairly excoriated and bleeding all over from the small of my back to the middle of my thighs, and the blood trickled down my legs, whilst neither prick nor balls escaped their merciless attack. ”
Printed for the Society of Vice, The Pearl — La Rose D'Amour.
“ The committee, one of whom was my partner's brother, advanced to me and led me to the couch, while three of the ladies present took Mademoiselle de C-, and placing her on her back turned a small screw at one side of it, which, acting on springs, raised that part on which rested her beautiful buttocks, elevating them at least one foot higher than her head or feet, forming a sort of bow, and throwing up that portion of her belly and thighs which was most contiguous to the dear little cleft in the bottom of her belly. ”
Alexander Miles, Manual of Surgery Volume Second…
“ On examination, the limb is found to be shortened, the great trochanter is displaced upwards and backwards and is unduly prominent, and the muscles of the buttock and thigh are a little smaller and softer than on the normal side. ”
Anonymous, The Romance of Lust — Volume 4 (1873)
“ I then made him turn over on his belly, that I might admire his ivory-like buttocks, which I caressed and kissed in every way. My wife slipping her hand under his belly soon recovered the stiffness of his prick. I now desired him to kneel that I might be into his bottom.His exquisitely white buttocks, marble-like in polish, hardness, and coldness to the touch, were most attractive to women as well as to me. ”
Hippocrates,
On the Articulations
“ Inwardly, the thigh about the perineum appears more hollow and flabby, but externally the buttock is more rounded, from the head of the thigh having slipped outward, but the nates appear to be raised up, owing to the flesh there having yielded to the head of the thigh-bone; but the extremity of the thigh-bone, at the knee, appears to be turned inward, and the leg and foot in like manner, neither does it admit of flexion like the sound limb. ”
Anonymous, Des Grieux (1899)
“ Another delightful thing was to get some girl to lie across our knees, to open her pants, and slap her buttocks till it made our hands, as well as those quiescent lobes, red as poppies, hot as ovens, and tingle with pain; stilwe found an unexplainable pleasure in the sound cuffs we gave, for it almost made our tiny prickles stand on an end. ”
J. Morris Slemons,
The Prospective Mother, a Handbook for Women During Pregnancy
“ For example, the buttocks, together with the lower part of the back, are raised off the bed, while the shoulders, elbows, and the heels remain stationary. A day or so before getting up the patient should practice alternately raising herself from the recumbent to the sitting posture and returning to the above position without assistance from the arms. ”
Alexander Miles, Manual of Surgery Volume First…
“ At least once a day, the sacrum, buttocks, shoulder-blades, heels, elbows, malleoli, or other parts exposed to pressure, must be sponged with soap and water, thoroughly dried, and then rubbed with methylated spirit, which is allowed to dry on the skin. ”
S. P. Sackett, Mother, Nurse and Infant
“ By PRESENTATION, I mean that part that presents itself at the brim of the pelvis, so that the accoucheur’s finger impinges upon it as the end is passed into the center of the os uteri.126The DIAGNOSIS of the different presentations is made by the touch. The head may be known by the hardness and roundness, and more certainly by the fontanelles and sutures; the breach by its general softness, and by the tuberosity of the haunch bone; by the cleft between the buttocks, the scrotum or the vulva, and the anus; the knee by the hardness and roundness of the bone ”
Anonymous, The Romance of Lust — Volume 3 (1873)
“ The doctor then changed his position, and drew the boy more over his belly, so that his great prick could get between the boy's thighs, rubbing under his balls in the trough between the buttocks, while the boy's cock rubbed against the doctor's belly. ”
Thomas Jefferson Ritter, Mother's Remedies
“ Symptoms.—There is intense itching at the anus, increased by warmth, and contact of the buttocks. The itching grows worse after the patient becomes warm in bed. It may spread and extend to the scrotum, down the limbs and sometimes over the lower back. ”
Albert Ernest Jenks, The Bontoc Igorot
“ The hands are strong and short. The waist line is firm and smaller than the shoulders or hips. The buttocks usually appear heavy. His legs are generally straight; the thighs and calves are those of a prime pedestrian accustomed to long and frequent walks. The ankles are seldom thick ”
Albert Moll, The Sexual Life of the Child
“ In many children, however, gentle scratching of the anal region or the buttocks, and also more powerful stimulation of the gluteal region, such as occurs in flagellation, are associated with sexual excitement. ”
Hugh Garner Bennett, Animal Proteins
“ The same tendencies for reducing the time taken to tan, employing stronger liquors, and securing economy of labour in handling, have been evidenced in the tannage of strap butts as in sole butts. It is nevertheless true that, broadly speaking, strap butts receive rather more handling and rather weaker liquors than sole butts. ”
Charles B. Penrose, A Text-book of Diseases of Women
“ By this arrangement the feet and legs are supported without any effort on the part of the woman; when the buttocks are drawn well down to the foot of the table there is a certain amount of flexion 23 of the pelvis upon the trunk, and the most complete attainable relaxation of the abdominal muscles is secured. ”
M. le Clerc, The Compleat Surgeon
“ If the Luxation be Posterior, a Tumour is felt in the Buttocks with great Pain, and the Legg is shorter than it ought to be: There also appears a sinking in the Groin, the Leg is lifted off from the Ground, and the hurt Person is apt to fall backward. ”
Muhammad al-Nafzawi,
The Perfumed Garden
(1886)
“ If this malady only affects his knees and legs, his thighs and spinal column remaining sound, he can use all the sundry positions for coition, except those where he would have to stand up. In case his buttocks are affected, even if he is otherwise perfectly well, it is the woman who will have to make all the movements. ”
Muhammad al-Nafzawi,
The Perfumed Garden
(1886)
“ This position is painful for woman, for her thighs being bent upwards and her buttocks raised by the cushion, the walls of her vagina tighten, and the uterus tending forward there is no much room for movement, and scarcely space enough for the intruder ”
Julius Rosenbaum, The Plague of Lust, Vol. 1 (of 2…
“ In consequence of the stretching of the fundament, the buttocks become broader towards the lower part, and the space between them wider, causing the hips to take more the shape they have in a woman,193 the pelvis itself seems to be enlarged, while the legs lose their straightness and the knees bend more and more inwards (γονύκροτος—knock-kneed,) —in short the whole of the lower half of the body assumes the feminine type. ”
"Walter", My Secret Life: Volume 1 — Volume 1…
“ Her arse being so flat, her cu*t-hole so low, and her thighs so close, my p*ick as it entered seemed to bend under in some way and hurt me; my tight prepuce was often torn rudely down, and frequently bled. When I probed her cu*t with my finger it never seemed to have the soft buttery feel I had been accustomed to, but to be harsh; so I found it best to wet my p*ick copiously with spittle when I had her. Then off we used tc go; she raising her long legs until her heels were above my buttocks, writhing and wriggling under me and finishing her pleasure with a sort of snort. ”
F. Scott Fitzgerald,
Tales of the Jazz Age
(1922)
“ When his son was dressed Mr. Button regarded him with depression. The costume consisted of dotted socks, pink pants, and a belted blouse with a wide white collar. Over the latter waved the long whitish beard, drooping almost to the waist. The effect was not good. ”
Roxey Ann Caplin, Health and beauty by Caplin (1856)
“ Again, when in a recumbent posture on the back, the breast of the man will be the highest part, but the pubes in the woman. The female loins are also the broadest, and the hollow of her back the greatest, in order that the due inclination may be given to the pelvis. ”
Aldred Scott Warthin, Practical pathology (1897)
“ These organs and the bladder are then pulled up firmly toward the head of the cadaver, and with the cartilage-knife hugging the pubic bone the rectum is cut just above the internal sphincter, and the urethra just anteriorly to the prostate. When it is desired to get as much of the penis as possible, its attachments to the pubis are cut from the pelvic side, and the body of the penis pulled up into the pelvis, while the skin of the organ is loosened as far as the glans. ”
Roxey Ann Caplin, Health and beauty by Caplin (1856)
“ A glance at our illustration will show that the waist is put in the natural position—that is, across the abdomen, below the floating ribs, and just over the hips; by doing this we avoid all injurious effects, which are laid—and that truly—at the door of the ordinary corset, and by placing the waist in its natural position give not only a more beautiful but a more slender appearance. ”
Harland William Long, Sane Sex Life and Sane Sex Living (1919)
“ Instead of taking the position for coitus which has already been described—the woman on her back and the man over and above her—let this be done: Let the man lie on his left side, or partly on his left side and partly on his back, facing the woman, his left leg drawn up so that the thigh makes an angle of 45 degrees with the body, and the knee bent at about the same angle. Now let her, lying on her right side, mount into his arms, in this way: Let her place her right hip in the angle made by her husband's left thigh and his body, so that his left leg supports her hips, by being under them ”
M. le Clerc, The Compleat Surgeon — Introduction (1696)
“ The Penis or Yard is a Nervous and Membranous Part, well furnish'd with Veins and Arteries, containing in the middle the Canal of the Ureter: Its Extremity, which consists of a very delicate and spongy sort of Flesh, is call'd Balanus, or Glans, and the Nut, the Skin that covers it being nam'd the Præputium, or the Fore-Skin. Thus by the means of this swell'd Part, and stiff thro' the affluence of the Spirits, the Male injects his Seed into the Matrix of the Female, to propagate his Kind.What are the Parts appropriated to Generation in Women? ”
Randall Parrish,
My Lady of the North
“ Reckless ferocity was in that mad rush; they pressed on more like demons than human beings. I saw men fall; I saw the living stumble over the dead. I heard cries of agony, shouts, curses, but there was no pause. I could mark their faces now, cruel, angry, revengeful; the hands that grasped the veranda railings; the leaping bodies; the rifle-butts uplifted to batter down our frail defences. As trapped tigers we fought, hurling them back from the windows, slashing, clubbing, striking with fist and steel. ”
N. D. Falck, The Seaman's Medical Instructor
“ At the back of the penis, goes along the large vein, called the vena penis, which spreads itself all along into numberless branches that connect themselves with the ramifications of the arteries throughout all the cavernous bodies; and from thence is caused the erection, as I shall presently describe. The glans, or the nut of the yard, is remarkably delicate and sensible, as being the seat of pleasure in coition; it is also of a cellular substance, and in one continuation with the cavernous body of the urethra. ”
Edmund Owen, 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica (1911)
“ The most satisfactory course which it can take is through the wall of the abdomen and out above the right groin. As it is making its way in this direction the skin over that part becomes red, swollen, hot and tender, and the tissues between it and the skin become swollen and brawny. Rarely is fluctuation to be made out until the pus has worked its way close to the surface. ”
Mary Wood-Allen,
What a Young Woman Ought to Know
“ Just above the hips there is no bony structure [127] to protect and support the soft, muscular parts. They yield to pressure, and the internal viscera, deprived of muscular support, sink until they rest on the pelvic organs. If, when you look at your abdomen, you see depressions or hollows on each side below the floating ribs, you may know that the bowels have sagged down out of place. If you feel great weariness, backache, or a dragged down feeling in standing or walking, you may know that the contents of the abdomen are pulling on their attachments or pressing on the pelvic organs. ”
Edward Harrison Taylor, A New Hylid Frog from Eastern Mexico
“ Skin of dorsal surfaces generally smooth (under magnification surface minutely corrugated and wrinkled) ; ventral surface of abdomen, the thighs, and lower part of lateral surface of body strongly granulate, the granules unequal in size and elevation; breast, chin, and under side of arm with sparse granules or tubercles.Anal opening ventral, covered by a small, free, triangular flap; a small thickened fold, slightly free, on each side of anus partly covered by triangular flap. ”
Havelock Ellis,
Studies in the Psychology of Sex…
“ The treading should be inflicted for a few minutes all over the chest, abdomen and groin, and lastly on the penis, which is, of course, lying along the belly in a violent state of erection, and consequently too hard for the treading to damage it. I also enjoy being nearly strangled by a woman's foot. ”
E. Nesbit,
The Rainbow and the Rose
“ With daisies white like silver and buttercups like gold, And it's oh! for once to play thro' the long, the lovely day, To laugh before the year grows old! There is silver moonlight on the breast of the river Where the willows tremble to the kiss of night, Where the nine tall aspens in the meadow shiver, Shiver in the night wind that turns them white. And the lamps, the lamps are lit, the lamps are glow-worms light, Between the silver aspens and the west's last gold. And it's oh! to drink delight in the lovely lonely night, To be young before the heart grows old! ”
