beaut

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beaut

/bjuːt/ UK
/bjut/ US
/bjʉt/ Northern Ireland, Scotland

Sounds like butte, Bute, Butte · Rhymes with -uːt

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Either a back-formation from beauty or a clipping of thereof.

noun beauts

informal Something or someone that is physically attractive. That new car of yours is a real beaut.
Similar: beautiful person
informal Something that is a remarkable example of its type. Bruno lifted his left hand out of the bucket in order to point out to Catfoot a lump, the size of a darning egg, over his left eye. […] "Ain't it a beaut, Cat? It's where he butted me."

adjective beauter · beautest

Australia, especially, informal Beautiful, splendid. An' there was posies all round Jim, He had a bran new suit, The first un that he ever had, An' everything was beaut. An' when the preacher told 'bout Jim— How ' twas he got the swipe— I saw most all them dandy swells A feelin' fer a wipe.

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"beaut." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/beaut. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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"beaut." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/beaut.

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@misc{beaut_2026,
  title = {beaut},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/beaut},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}