butu

Derived from Akan butu (“to overturn, to stoop down”).^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈbʊtʊ/
• Hyphenation: bu‧tu

butu (plural butu dem, quantified butu)

1. An uncouth and stupid person; a boor; a low-class person.^[2]

   Synonyms: tegareg, virago, zutupek

   Di new neighbour dem a some real butu. Mawnin', noon, an' night dem haffi blas' dem music an' mek up bere noise lakka dancehall dem deh.

   The new neighbours are truly low-class people. They blast their music and create a commotion all day as if they were in a discotheque.

   • [2006, Ras Dennis Jabari Reynolds, Jabari: Authentic Jamaican Dictionary of the Jamic Language‎^[1] (in English), →ISBN, page 22:

     “butoo; butu (bü-tü): n. - a dummy; someone who is regarded as foolish, backward or loutish […] ”]

• boogooyaga
• waste man

From Proto-Philippine *butuq, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *butuq, from Proto-Austronesian *buCuq. Cognate to Cebuano buto (“testicle (dialectal); female genitalia (vulgar)”) and Malay butuh (“penis”)

• IPA^(key): /ˈbutuʔ/ [ˈbuː.tuʔ]
• Hyphenation: bu‧tu

bútû

1. (vulgar) male genitalia; penis

   Synonym: kalalaki

butu

1. (anatomy) scrotum

butu

1. vote

From Dutch boete.

butu

1. fine, punishment

butu

1. to pay by way of punishment
2. to fine

• IPA^(key): [ˈbu.tu]

butu

1. a market

• IPA^(key): [ˈbu.tu]

butu

1. (transitive) to press

Conjugation of butu
	Singular	Plural
	Inclusive	Exclusive
1st	tobutu	fobutu	mibutu
2nd	nobutu	nibutu
3rd	Masculine	obutu	ibutu, yobutu†
Feminine	mobutu
Neuter	ibutu
† - archaic

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh