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Butterball

noun, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    A round lump of a coagulated fat used in cooking such as butter or margarine.
  2. 2
    small North American diving duck; males have bushy head plumage wordnet
  3. 3
    An overweight person. derogatory, slang

    "What if your baby is a butterball? Does Fat-Proofing mean you should put your infant on diet?."

  4. 4
    a rotund individual wordnet
  5. 5
    A small North American duck, the bufflehead, Bucephala albeola.

    "The skipper had his eye on a bunch of butterballs feeding not far from the boat. In fact there were ducks all around — though he did not tell me so."

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  1. 6
    A turkey. Canada, US

Etymology

From butter + ball.

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