butter
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
butter (uncountable)
- A soft, fatty foodstuff made by churning the cream of milk (generally cow's milk).
- 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).
- peanut butter
- (obsolete, chemistry) Any specific soft substance.
- butter of antimony; butter of arsenic
- French: beurre
- German: Butter
- Italian: burro
- Portuguese: manteiga
- Russian: ма́сло
- Spanish: mantequilla, manteca (Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay)
- French: beurre
- Russian: ма́сло
butter (butters, present participle buttering; past and past participle buttered)
- (transitive) To spread butter on.
- Butter the toast.
- 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.
- (slang, obsolete, transitive) To increase (stakes) at every throw of dice, or every game.
- French: beurrer
- German: mit Butter bestreichen
- Italian: imburrare
- Portuguese: amanteigar, passar manteiga em
- Russian: нама́слить
- Spanish: untar con mantequilla
butter (plural butters)
- Someone who butts, or who butts in.
- 2005, David E. Fastovsky, David B. Weishampel, The Evolution and Extinction of the Dinosaurs (page 156)
- […] 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.
- 2005, David E. Fastovsky, David B. Weishampel, The Evolution and Extinction of the Dinosaurs (page 156)
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