gurrybutt

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noun

A receptacle for discarded clam or lobster shells, often a large bowl or small bucket placed directly on the table during a meal.

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Meanings

noungurrybutt (plural gurrybutts)

plural gurrybutts

  1. A receptacle for discarded clam or lobster shells, often a large bowl or small bucket placed directly on the table during a meal.

    Oh, Penn, dump these in the gurrybutt, ‘fore you sleep. Kin you keep awake that long?”

    1897, Rudyard Kipling, Captains Courageous
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APA

gurrybutt. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gurrybutt

MLA

“gurrybutt.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gurrybutt. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “gurrybutt,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gurrybutt.

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