butter
nounEtymology
PIE word *gʷṓws Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *gʷṓws Proto-Hellenic *gʷous Ancient Greek βοῦς (boûs) Proto-Indo-European *tewh₂-der. Proto-Hellenic *tūrós Ancient Greek τυρός (turós) Ancient Greek βούτῡρον (boútūron)bor. Latin būtȳrumbor. Proto-West Germanic *buterā Old English butere Middle English buter English butter From Middle English buter, butter, from Old English butere, from Proto-West Germanic *buterā, from Latin būtȳrum, from Ancient Greek βούτῡρον (boútūron, “cow cheese”), compound of βοῦς (boûs, “ox, cow”) and τῡρός (tūrós, “cheese”). Cognate with Dutch boter and German Butter.
Definitions
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…
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
- soy butter
- chocolate butter
Any of various substances made from other (especially plant-based) oils or fats, used in…
Any of various substances made from other (especially plant-based) oils or fats, used in moisturizers, cosmetics, etc.
- Butters such as cocoa, illippe, kokum, mango, murumuru, sal (shorea) and shea occur naturally and are obtained directly from the plant.
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Any specific soft substance.
- butter of antimony; butter of arsenic
Something that is smooth, impressive, or appealing. (Compare smooth as butter.)
- That “Confessions” into “Nice and Slow” transition [at the Super Bowl LVIII halftime show] was buttah !
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…
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. Similar to applying butter to bread with the end of a knife.
To increase (stakes) at every throw of dice, or every game.
Someone or something that butts.
- […] 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.
Someone or something that butts in
Someone or something that butts in; a busybody.
A surname.
The neighborhood
- neighborbutterface
- neighborbutterfly
- neighborbutter-ham
- neighborbutyraceous
- neighborghee
Derived
almond-butter, almond butter, apple butter, back-butter, back butter, bean-butter, black butter, blue butter, body butter, bog butter, brandy butter, bread-and-butter, bread and butter, bread-and-butter issue, bread-and-butter letter, bread-and-butter note, bread-and-butter pickle, bread-and-butter plate, bread and butter pudding, brown butter, budder, bull butter, butterable, butter-and-egger, butter-and-egg man, butter-and-egg money, butter-and-eggs, butter bar, butter bean, butterbird, butter board, butter boat, butter bomb, butter-box, butter bread, butter brickle, butterburger, butterbutt, butter cake, butter chicken · +162 more
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at butter. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at butter. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
10 hops · closes at butter
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA