The phrase "a bute" is not correct in standard written English.
It appears to be a misspelling or misinterpretation of "a beaut" or "a beauty," which are colloquial expressions.
Example: "That sunset is a beaut; I've never seen anything like it."
Alternatives: "a beauty" or "a gem."
To anyone familiar with the deep peace of Rothesay's putting green, that seems a startling ambition, but a new Bute eminence, John McGhee QC, has begun to publicise it as the island's best destiny.
Giving a racehorse bute ahead of the race is only one instance in which a racehorse may receive the drug.
In the UK, horse carcasses must have a negative bute test before they are allowed to enter the food chain.
At a get-together in Bute of a charity committee to which I belong, a marketing executive specified 52/48, but wouldn't or couldn't say in which side's favour.
Or is it simply the groundwork for a rebranding exercise that will give Rothesay a boutique hotel and a notable restaurant, and turn Bute into a little piece of Cornwall in the north?
"I'm a fan of BUTE ISLAND FOOD'S Blue Style Sheese, a vegan alternative to blue cheese.
Bute, an hour and a half from Glasgow by car and boat, may not be blessed with palm-fringed beaches but is the perfect setting for this dark tale about the ties of family.
This was the inaugural six-day guided paddle through the southern section of Argyll and Bute – a county that somehow manages to accumulate a shoreline of 1,680 miles, just fractionally shorter then the whole of France's.
It closed in 1980 and served some time as a drugs rehabilitation centre, but for most of its life has been the Battersea power station of Argyll and Bute, a wreck as thoroughly beaten up as a building can be, outside a war zone.
After the war it moved to a venue on Bute Terrace, and then in 1996 it moved to a new and its last premises in Ocean Park, officially opened by the Duke of Kent.
