butter-and-egg man

noun

Definitions

  1. A prosperous dairy farmer (or other wealthy rural citizen), seen as coming into the big…

    A prosperous dairy farmer (or other wealthy rural citizen), seen as coming into the big city and ostentatiously living it up.

    • He puffed on the big cigar that he always had stuck in his face and posed back like a big butter-and-egg man.

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