butter-and-egg man

[buht-er-uhn-eg]

butter-and-egg man

[buht-er-uhn-eg]
noun Older Slang.
a prosperous businessman from a small town or a farmer who spends his money ostentatiously on visits to a big city.

Origin:
1920–25, Americanism
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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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