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• bute
  bute

  noun

  phenylbutazone.
• Bute
  Bute

  noun

  Also Buteshire a historic county in SW Scotland, composed of three islands in the Firth of Clyde.

bute

¹ American  

[byoot] / bjut /

noun

Slang.

1. phenylbutazone.

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Bute ² American  

[byoot] / bjut /

noun

1. Also Buteshire a historic county in SW Scotland, composed of three islands in the Firth of Clyde.

2. an island in the Firth of Clyde, in SW Scotland: part of the county Bute. 50 sq. mi. (130 sq. km).

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Bute ¹ British  

/ bjuːt /

noun

1. an island off the coast of SW Scotland, in Argyll and Bute council area: situated in the Firth of Clyde, separated from the Cowal peninsula by the Kyles of Bute . Chief town: Rothesay. Pop: 7228 (2001). Area: 121 sq km (47 sq miles)

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Bute ² British  

/ bjuːt /

noun

1. John Stuart , 3rd Earl of Bute. 1713–92, British Tory statesman; prime minister (1762–63)

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Etymology

Origin of bute

First recorded in 1965–70; by shortening

Example Sentences

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Most were for excessive use of phenylbutazone, a commonly used anti-inflammatory known as bute.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2021

Bute masks many pains, and horses run on bute when they should be in rehab.

From New York Times ● Jan. 15, 2015

Some horsemeat may contain the painkiller phenylbutazone, or bute, which is never supposed to enter the human food chain, since it presents the small risk of messing up your bone marrow.

From Newsweek ● Feb. 19, 2013

The Food Standards Agency said eight of 206 horses it checked had tested positive for bute.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 15, 2013

Yet will they not take hwo hit biȝete. who procured it? nafst thu bute welawei. nor hast thou but well away! that thu weole heuedest. that thou hadst wealth.

From The Departing Soul's Address to the Body A Fragment of a Semi-Saxon Poem, Discovered Among the Archives of Worcester Cathedral by Samuel Weller Singer

Prince William and the Princess of Wales were on the Isle of Bute on Thursday focusing on royal duty rather than family fallout.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

Meanwhile, during the day, Prince William and Catherine will visit community and volunteering projects on the Isle of Bute.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

The Scottish government has invested £10m in the pilot, which has been tested in the Highlands, Western and Northern Isles, Moray, and Argyll and Bute for the past year.

From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026

Last year about a third of visitors came from outside Scotland, and most of them spent at least two nights in accommodation in Argyll and Bute.

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026

In Cardiff, the shipbroking firm of ‘Aadnesen & Dahl’ was set up and a single room in Bute Street was rented as an office.

From "Boy: Tales of a Childhood" by Roald Dahl