| 单词 | butter |
| 释义 | butter 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. --vtr. spread, cook, or serve with butter (butter the bread; buttered carrots). Phrases and idioms butter-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. Etymology: OE butere f. L butyrum f. Gk bouturon |
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