butut

[ boo-toot ]

noun,plural bu·tut, bu·tuts.
  1. a bronze coin of The Gambia, one 100th of a dalasi.

Origin of butut

1
First recorded in 1970–75; from Wolof butuut, literally, “something small, the small one,” from tuuti “to be small”

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British Dictionary definitions for butut

butut

/ (bʊˈtʊt) /


noun
  1. a Gambian monetary unit worth one hundredth of a dalasi

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