butut

American  

[boo-toot] / ˈbu tut /

noun

butut, plural bututs plural

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

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butut British  

/ bʊˈtʊt /

noun

1. 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”