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butter
  1. (uncountable) A soft, fatty foodstuff made by churning the cream of milk (generally cow's milk).
  2. (chemistry) Any specific soft substance.
  3. (uncountable) 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).
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  5. Examples:
    1. “Dip the oysters into melted butter, or into oil, and lay them on the broiler.”
      “Even with my talent for laying on the butter thick, and in all the right places, I understood at any given moment the whole thing could come crashing down.”
butterball
  1. A round lump of a coagulated fat used in cooking such as butter, margarine, or a spread
  2. (derogatory) An overweight person.
  3. A small North American duck.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “You've become a desperate and pathetic figure, Amy Dickerson, growing jealous over a stranger's interest in the image of a naked butterball.”
      “He is rather unpleasant and totally opposite to the charming butterball he was at high school.”
      “Yep, it took us just a little bit over 3.5 hours to cook a nice little 10 lb butterball turkey.”
buttermilk
  1. The liquid left over after producing butter from full cream milk by the churning process, also called traditional buttermilk.
  2. Cultured buttermilk, a fermented dairy product produced from cow's milk, with a characteristically sour taste.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “Right now, there was the smell of fresh buttermilk pancakes coming from the kitchen mixed with that of crisp bacon and tea just freshly brewed.”
      “These include sellers of tea, ice-cream cones, soda, buttermilk, toys, trinkets and even small electronic gadgets.”
      “Dairy products like ghee, buttermilk and yoghurt are also used to prepare the medication.”
buttery
  1. A room for keeping food or beverages; a storeroom.
  2. (Britain) A room in a university where snacks are sold.
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butterburger
  1. (US) A hamburger made with butter, whether it is mixed with the meat or applied to the bun before toasting.
butteroil
  1. The fatty part of butter obtained by removing moisture, protein etc.
buttermint
  1. A kind of soft peppermint made with butter and sugar.
butterhorn
  1. A light, soft flaky roll made with butter and often almonds.
buttercream
  1. (cooking) A type of icing made by creaming a fat such as butter with powdered sugar
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  3. Examples:
    1. “I love baking cakes and always enjoy preparing a delicious buttercream to frost them.”
      “I actually got intimidated by the amount of sugar used, so cut some down in the cake and buttercream.”
      “I took off my samite robe and folded it around my buttercream gown and green cloak.”
butterer
  1. Agent noun of butter; one who butters.
butter
  1. Someone who butts, or who butts in.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Dip the oysters into melted butter, or into oil, and lay them on the broiler.”
      “Even with my talent for laying on the butter thick, and in all the right places, I understood at any given moment the whole thing could come crashing down.”
butterlessness
  1. (rare) The condition of being butterless.
butteriness
  1. The state or quality of being buttery.
butterwoman
  1. (dated) A woman who makes or sells butter.
butterman
  1. (dated) A man who makes or sells butter.
buttering
  1. The application of butter to something.
butters
butterburgers
  1. plural of butterburger
butterwomen
  1. plural of butterwoman
buttercreams
butterballs
  1. plural of butterball
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Exactly what the protein encoded by the damaged gene did for a living or why its loss turned mice into butterballs, however, was a mystery.”
      “Carbohydrates are not what has made us a nation of butterballs, however.”
butterhorns
  1. plural of butterhorn
buttermilks
buttermints
  1. plural of buttermint
buttermen
  1. plural of butterman
butterings
  1. plural of buttering
butteroils
  1. plural of butteroil
butterers
  1. plural of butterer
butteries
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