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ər noun
1.
the fatty portion of milk, separating as a soft whitish or yellowish solid when milk or cream is agitated or churned.
2.
this substance, processed for cooking and table use.
3.
any of various other soft spreads for bread: apple butter; peanut butter.
4.
any of various substances of butterlike consistency, as various metallic chlorides, and certain vegetable oils solid at ordinary temperatures.
verb (used with object)
5.
to put butter on or in; spread or grease with butter.
6.
to apply a liquefied bonding material to (a piece or area), as mortar to a course of bricks.
7.
Metalworking. to cover (edges to be welded together) with a preliminary surface of the weld metal.
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Un buttered
is always a great word to know.
So is bezoar. Does it mean:
| a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison. |
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
8.
butter up, Informal. to flatter someone in order to gain a favor: He suspected that they were buttering him up when everyone suddenly started being nice to him.
Origin:
before 1000; Middle English; Old English butere < Latin būtȳrum < Greek boútȳron
before 1000; Middle English; Old English butere < Latin būtȳrum < Greek boútȳron
Related forms
but·ter·less, adjective
but·ter·like, adjective
un·but·tered, adjective
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World English Dictionary
butt3 (bʌt) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —vb | |
| 1. | to strike or push (something) with the head or horns |
| 2. | (intr) to project; jut |
| 3. | (intr |
| 4. | informal chiefly (US), (Canadian) butt out to stop interfering or meddling |
| —n | |
| 5. | a blow with the head or horns |
| [C12: from Old French boter, of Germanic origin; compare Middle Dutch botten to strike; see | |
| 'butter3 | |
| —n | |
| butter (ˈbʌtə) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a. an edible fatty whitish-yellow solid made from cream by churning, for cooking and table use |
| b. (as modifier): butter icing Related: butyraceous | |
| 2. | any substance with a butter-like consistency, such as peanut butter or vegetable butter |
| 3. | look as if butter wouldn't melt in one's mouth to look innocent, although probably not so |
| —vb | |
| 4. | to put butter on or in |
| 5. | to flatter |
| Related: butyraceous | |
| [Old English butere, from Latin būtyrum, from Greek bouturon, from bous cow + turos cheese] | |
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Word Origin & History
butter
O.E. butere "butter," general W.Gmc. (cf. O.Fris., O.H.G. butera, Ger. Butter, Du. boter), an early loan-word from L. butyrum "butter" (cf. It. burro, O.Fr. burre, Fr. beurre), from Gk. boutyron, perhaps lit. "cow-cheese," from bous "ox, cow" + tyros "cheese;" but this may be a folk etymology of a Scythian
word. The product was used from an early date in India, Iran and northern Europe, but not in ancient Greece and Rome. Herodotus described it (along with cannabis) among the oddities of the Scythians. The verb is O.E. buterian; figurative meaning "to flatter lavishly" is from 1816. Butter-fingered is attested from 1610s.
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Medical Dictionary
butter but·ter (bŭt'ər)
n.
A soft yellowish or whitish emulsion of butterfat, water, air, and sometimes salt, churned from milk or cream and processed for use in cooking and as a food.
A soft solid having at room temperature a consistency like that of butter.
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Slang Dictionary
butter definition
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Bible Dictionary
Butter definition
(Heb. hemah), curdled milk (Gen. 18:8; Judg. 5:25; 2 Sam. 17:29), or butter in the form of the skim of hot milk or cream, called by the Arabs kaimak, a semi-fluid (Job 20:17; 29:6; Deut. 32:14). The words of Prov. 30:33 have been rendered by some "the pressure [not churning] of milk bringeth forth cheese."
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