butter-box

noun

Etymology

The idiom may have derived from the flag of Holland, which at the time had an orange stripe on top.

Definitions

  1. A Dutch person

    A Dutch person; used in the era of the Anglo-Dutch Wars.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for butter-box. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA