[Bigg Red]

I wish we had the context for that. Just based on comments there, it seems like the head buttee was carrying a knife and verbaly abusing other passengers. Sounded like a mid-Easterner.

[Songcraft]

"...it seems like the head buttee was carrying a knife..."

...and the head butter butted the head buttee, who was carrying a knife that was not a butter-knife...

(Sorry!)       :-)