Butname

• 1

  A surname.

butprep/ˈbʌt/

• 1

  Apart from, except (for), excluding.

  • Everyone but Father left early.
  • I like everything but that.
• 2

  Outside of.

  • Away but the hoose and tell me whae's there.

butadv/ˈbʌt/

• 1

  literaryMerely, only, just, no more than.

  • Christmas comes but once a year, so we can but wait till then.
  • […] if they kill vs, we shall but die.
• 2

  Though, however.

  • I'll have to go home early but.
  • "Supposin' the chap ain't dead, but?" Regan persisted.
• 3

  Used to repeat an adverb for emphasis; simply; just; absolutely.

  • I would never, but never do such a thing!
  • “I would never,” said Joan, as she backed the car and worked on the wheel, “but never have allowed my child to go abroad with that old Lesbian.”

butconj/ˈbʌt/

• 1

  However, although, nevertheless, on the other hand (introducing a clause contrary to prior belief or in contrast with the preceding clause or sentence).

  • She is very old but still attractive.
  • She’s welcomed them but been rude to us.
• 2

  On the contrary, rather (as a regular adversative conjunction, introducing a word or clause in contrast or contradiction with the preceding negative clause or sentence).

  • I am not rich but [I am] poor.  Not John but Peter went there.
  • It’s not so much that we don’t wanna go, but I just haven’t time.
• 3

  Used at the beginning of a sentence to express opposition to a remark.

  • But I never said you could do that!
  • In reality, I apprehend every amorous widow on the stage would run the hazard of being condemned as a servile imitation of Dido, but that happily very few of our play-house critics understand enough of Latin to read Virgil.
• 4

  Except that (introducing a subordinate clause which qualifies a negative statement); also, (archaic) with omission of the subject of the subordinate clause, acting as a negative relative, "except one that", "except such that".

  • I cannot but feel offended.
  • My kid does nothing but watch TV all day.
• 5

  Used to link an interjection to the following remark as an intensifier.

  • Wow! But that's amazing!
  • Oh, the engineers would see him sitting in the shade / Strumming with the rhythm that the drivers made / People passing by, they would stop and say / "Oh, my, but that little country boy could play"
• 6

  archaicWithout it also being the case that; unless that (introducing a necessary concomitant).

  • It never rains but it pours
  • I never hear this song but I think of you.
• 7

  obsoleteExcept with; unless with; without.

  • This man unable to manage his own happineſſe, grew ſo inſolent that he could not go, but either ſpurning his equals, or trampling on his inferiours.
• 8

  obsoleteOnly; solely; merely.

  • Observe but how their own principles combat one another.
  • a formidable man but to his friends

butnoun/ˈbʌt/

• 1

  An instance of using the word "but"; an objection or caveat.

  • It has to be done—no ifs, ands, or buts.
  • But—and this is a big but—you have to come home by sundown.
• 2

  The outer room of a small two-room cottage.

• 3

  A limit; a boundary.

• 4

  The end; especially the larger or thicker end, or the blunt, in distinction from the sharp, end; the butt.

butverb/ˈbʌt/

• 1

  archaicUse the word "but".

  • But me no buts.