• InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.netOP
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    1950s slang

    From a dictionary.

    butt 3

    3 <informal> mainly <North America English> The buttocks or anus:

    There are no dates. I googled but I only found this very annoying article where the writer speaks in circles

    The Grammarphobia Blog: Is ‘butt’ short for ‘buttock’?

    The OED’s earliest US example for “butt” used to mean the hindquarters is from John Russell Bartlett’s Dictionary of Americanisms (1859), which defines it this way: “The buttocks. The word is used in the West in such phrases as, ‘I fell on my butt,’ ‘He kick’d my butt.’ ”

    Maybe butthole was a slang term in the late 1800s but it was only a spoken form for many decades after that until some intrepid pioneer had the audacity to put it in print.

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      Yeah I searched to find an example in print. Most results were “but thoſe” mistranscribed. In the early 1900s I found butt hole used as a mining term (digging a butt hole in rock then stuffing it with explosives)