butut

American

[boo-toot] / ˈbu tut /

noun

a bronze coin of The Gambia, one 100th of a dalasi.

butut British

/ bʊˈtʊt /

noun

a Gambian monetary unit worth one hundredth of a dalasi

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

butut

plural
bututs

plural

Etymology

Origin of butut

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

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