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Butter
Definitions
- 1 A surname.
- 1 A soft, fatty foodstuff made by churning the cream of milk (generally cow's milk). uncountable, usually
- 2 Someone or something that butts.
"[…] these animals lacked self-correcting mechanisms of the kind seen in modern head-butters such as goats and big-horn sheep that would have kept the tremendous forces aligned with the rest of the skeleton."
- 3 an edible emulsion of fat globules made by churning milk or cream; for cooking and table use wordnet
- 4 Any of various foodstuffs made from other foods or oils, similar in consistency to, eaten like or intended as a substitute for butter (preceded by the name of the food used to make it). uncountable, usually
"peanut butter"
- 5 Someone or something that butts in; a busybody.
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- 6 a fighter who strikes the opponent with their head wordnet
- 7 Any of various substances made from other (especially plant-based) oils or fats, used in moisturizers, cosmetics, etc. uncountable, usually
"Butters such as cocoa, illippe, kokum, mango, murumuru, sal (shorea) and shea occur naturally and are obtained directly from the plant."
- 8 Any specific soft substance. obsolete, uncountable, usually
"butter of antimony; butter of arsenic"
- 9 A smooth plane landing. slang, uncountable, usually
"That landing was total butter!"
- 1 To spread butter on. transitive
"Butter the toast."
- 2 spread butter on wordnet
- 3 To move one's weight backwards or forwards onto the tips or tails of one's skis or snowboard so only the tip or tail is in contact with the snow. Similar to applying butter to bread with the end of a knife.
- 4 To move one's weight backwards or forwards onto the tips or tails of one's skis or snowboard so only the tip or tail is in contact with the snow. Similar to applying butter to bread with the end of a knife.; To spin on skis or a snowboard using only the tips or tails being in contact with the snow
- 5 To increase (stakes) at every throw of dice, or every game. obsolete, slang, transitive
Etymology
PIE word *gʷṓws From Middle English buter, butter, from Old English butere, from Proto-West Germanic *buterā, from Latin būtȳrum, from Ancient Greek βούτῡρον (boútūron, “cow cheese”), compound of βοῦς (boûs, “ox, cow”) and τῡρός (tūrós, “cheese”).
PIE word *gʷṓws From Middle English buter, butter, from Old English butere, from Proto-West Germanic *buterā, from Latin būtȳrum, from Ancient Greek βούτῡρον (boútūron, “cow cheese”), compound of βοῦς (boûs, “ox, cow”) and τῡρός (tūrós, “cheese”).
From butt + -er.
Various origins: * From butter, a metonymic occupational surname for a dairyman or seller of butter. * From Old French butor (“bittern”), a nickname for someone who resembled a bittern, perhaps because of his voice. * Borrowed from Dutch and German Butter, possibly a short form of various compound names.
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