单词 | butter |
释义 | butter (once / 175 pages) 1nv 2n Butter is a creamy spread made from milk fat. Your favorite breakfast might be hot toast slathered with butter. The process of making butter involves churning cream until the fats coagulate and become creamy and pale yellow. Butter is sometimes salted, and usually formed into sticks for cooks to use in frying, baking, and spreading on corn on the cob and baked goods. To do this is to butter your bread. The Greek root word is boutyron, literally "cow cheese," from bous, "cow." WORD FAMILYbutter: buttered, buttering, butters, buttery, butyraceous+/butt: butted, butter, butting, butts/buttery: butteries USAGE EXAMPLESMatch-day tickets were just the bread and butter of the compromise. The Guardian(Dec 01, 2016) They’d probably be happy to take your money, but Vegas thinks you’re Nutter Butters if you want to roll with Alabama over Cleveland. Wall Street Journal(Dec 01, 2016) But what if a sugar cookie picks up peanut butter from an improperly cleaned factory mixer? Washington Times(Nov 30, 2016) 1 1n an edible emulsion of fat globules made by churning milk or cream; for cooking and table use Hypo|Hyper stick a rectangular quarter pound block of butter or margarine clarified butter, drawn butterbutter made clear by heating and removing the sediment of milk solids beurre noisette, brown butterclarified butter browned slowly and seasoned with vinegar or lemon juice and capers Meuniere butter, lemon butterclarified butter browned slowly and seasoned with lemon juice and parsley yak butterbutter made from yaks' milk gheeclarified butter used in Indian cookery food, solid food any solid substance (as opposed to liquid) that is used as a source of nourishment dairy productmilk and butter and cheese 2v spread butter on 2butter bread Hyper cover provide with a covering or cause to be covered n a fighter who strikes the opponent with his head Hyper battler, belligerent, combatant, fighter, scrapper someone who fights (or is fighting) |
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