butter
/ˈbʌtə
/noun [mass noun]
A pale yellow edible fatty substance made by churning cream and used as a spread or in cooking.They are served hot or cold spread with butter or margarine and sometimes jelly jam and cream....
- We defined high fat dairy food as whole milk, ice cream, hard cheese, butter, and sour cream.
- Dairy products such as butter, cream, and cheese are important parts of the diet, along with pork.
verb [with object]
Spread (something) with butter: Lily buttered a slice of toast (as adjective buttered) lavishly buttered bread...
- Apryl half-heartedly smiled back as she picked up a slice of toast and buttered it.
- Janice had made her two slices of toast and buttered them, and set them on the counter by the door, wrapped in a paper towel.
- She said: ‘I was buttering a piece of bread and I just dropped what I was doing.’
Phrases
look as if butter wouldn't melt in one's mouth
Phrasal verbs
butter someone up
Derivatives
butterless
Origin
Old English butere, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch boter and German Butter, based on Latin butyrum, from Greek bouturon.
Rhymes
- unprotectedly
- unprotestant
- unprotestantize
- unprotestantizing
- unprotestant-like
- unprotested
- unprotesting
- unprotestingly
- unprotruded
- unprotrusive
- unproud
- unprovability
- unprovable
- unprovableness
- unproved
- unproven
- unprovided
- unprovided for
- unprovidential
- unprovisioned
- unprovocative
- Franconia
- Franconian
- Franconia Notch
- Francophile