black-buttedadj.
/ˌblakˈbʌtᵻd/, U.S. /ˌblækˈbədəd/ Having a black base or butt (butt n.6).
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > black or blackness > [adjective]
blackeOE
blokec1200
neger?c1425
sable1470
black-coloured1528
sable-coloured1596
ebon1607
Ethiopa1616
torrid1634
atred1654
pullous1698
nigricant1772
black-butted1801
nigrific1804
Negro1816
nigritudinous1851
nigrine1885
1801 C. Grimes in Hist. Rec. Austral. (1915) 1st Ser. III. 414 The finest stringy-bark and black-butted blue-gum trees I ever saw.
1886 F. M. Halford Floating Flies & how to dress Them v. 91 Red Spinner... Hackle: Black butted red game-cock.
1912 Z. Grey Riders Purple Sage i. 8 He packs two black-butted guns—low down—they're hard to see—black agin them black chaps.
1927 Boys' Life Dec. 7 At his hip sagged a big, black-butted Colt six-gun.
2001 G. Gilliland Demon of Longing 39 Just white folks and Indians, Leonard—maybe a Mexican here and there, but no goddamn black-butted niggers.
Compounds
black-butted gum n. chiefly Australian (now rare) = blackbutt n.
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > Australasian trees > [noun] > eucalyptus trees
yellow box1662
gum tree1676
white gum tree1733
whip-stick1782
peppermint1790
red gum tree1790
red mahogany1798
white gum1798
box1801
blue gum1802
eucalyptus1809
box tree1819
black-butted gum1820
bloodwood1827
white ash1830
blackbutt1833
morrel1837
mountain ash1837
mallee scrub1845
apple gum1846
flooded gum1847
Moreton Bay ash1847
mallee1848
swamp gum1852
box-gum1855
manna gum1855
white top1856
river gum1860
grey box1861
woolly butt1862
marlock1863
fever tree1867
red ironbark1867
river white gum1867
karri1870
yellow jacket1876
eucalypt1877
yapunyah1878
coolibah1879
scribbly gum1883
forest mahogany1884
yellow jack1884
rose gum1885
Jimmy Low1887
nankeen gum1889
slaty gum1889
sugar-gum1889
apple box1890
Murray red gum1895
creek-gum1898
eucalyptian1901
forest red gum1904
river red gum1920
napunyah1921
whitewash gum1923
ghost gum1928
snow gum1928
Sydney blue gum1932
salmon gum1934
lapunyah1940
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular timber trees or shrubs > non-British timber trees > [noun] > Australasian
tallow-tree1704
rata1773
rosewood1779
red mahogany1798
ironbark1799
wild orange1802
red gum1803
rewarewa1817
red cedar1818
black-butted gum1820
Huon pine1820
miro1820
oak1821
horoeka1831
hinau1832
maire1832
totara1832
blackbutt1833
marri1833
raspberry jam tree1833
kohekohe1835
puriri1835
tawa1839
hickory1840
whau1840
pukatea1841
titoki1842
butterbush1843
iron gum1844
York gum1846
mangeao1848
myall1848
ironheart1859
lilly-pilly1860
belah1862
flindosa1862
jarrah1866
silky oak1866
teak of New South Wales1866
Tolosa-wood1866
turmeric-tree1866
walking-stick palm1869
tooart1870
queenwood1873
tarairi1873
boree1878
yate1880
axe-breaker1884
bangalay1884
coachwood1884
cudgerie1884
feather-wood1884
forest mahogany1884
maiden's blush1884
swamp mahogany1884
tallow-wood1884
teak of New Zealand1884
wandoo1884
heartwood1885
ivorywood1887
Jimmy Low1887
Burdekin plum1889
corkwood1889
pigeon-berry ash1889
red beech1889
silver beech1889
turnip-wood1891
black bean1895
red bean1895
pinkwood1898
poplar1898
rose mahogany1898
quandong1908
lancewood1910
New Zealand honeysuckle1910
Queensland walnut1919
mahogany gum1944
Australian mahogany1948
1801 C. Grimes in Hist. Rec. Austral. (1915) 1st Ser. III. 414 The finest stringy-bark and black-butted blue-gum trees I ever saw.]
1820 J. Oxley Jrnls. Two Exped. New S. Wales 331 The timber was chiefly black butted gum.
1898 Proc. Linn. Soc. New S. Wales 23 786 Eucalyptus pilularis..Before the term ‘Gum’ was restricted to those Eucalypts which have smooth or nearly smooth bark, it was called ‘Black-butted Gum’.
1903 Agric. Gaz. New S. Wales 16 Oct. 989 A bush in sandy land near Sydney. Perhaps a Blackbutted Gum.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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adj.1801