Butter | An oily, unctuous substance obtained from cream or milk by
churning. |
Butter | Any substance resembling butter in degree of consistence,
or other qualities, especially, in old chemistry, the chlorides, as
butter of antimony, sesquichloride of antimony; also, certain concrete
fat oils remaining nearly solid at ordinary temperatures, as butter of
cacao, vegetable butter, shea butter. |
Butter | To cover or spread with butter. |
Butter | To increase, as stakes, at every throw or every game. |
Butter | One who, or that which, butts. |
battler, belligerent, combatant, dairy product, fighter, food, scrapper, solid food,
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(noun) dairy product (generic term)|food (generic term)|solid food (generic term)
(noun) combatant (generic term)|battler (generic term)|belligerent (generic term)|fighter (generic term)|scrapper (generic term)
(verb) cover (generic term)
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Nothing antonyms found for term: butter
English explanatory dictionary
n. & v. --n. 1 a a pale yellow edible fatty substance made by churning cream and used as a spread or in cooking. b a substance of a similar consistency or appearance (peanut butter). 2 excessive flattery. --v.tr. spread, cook, or serve with butter (butter the bread; buttered carrots). øbutter-and-eggs any of several plants having two shades of yellow in the flower, e.g. toadflax. butter-bean 1 the flat, dried, white lima bean. 2 a yellow-podded bean. butter-cream (or -icing) a mixture of butter, icing sugar, etc. used as a filling or a topping for a cake. butter-fingers colloq. a clumsy person prone to drop things. butter-knife a blunt knife used for cutting butter at table. butter muslin a thin, loosely-woven cloth with a fine mesh, orig. for wrapping butter. butter-nut 1 a N. American tree, Juglans cinerea. 2 the oily nut of this tree. butter up colloq. flatter excessively. look as if butter wouldn't melt in one's mouth seem demure or innocent, probably deceptively. [OE butere f. L butyrum f. Gk bouturon],
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Merrian-Webster dictionary
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Word class |
Description |
butter | noun | FLATTERY |
butter | transitive verb | to spread with or as if with butter |
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