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German

Etymology

Old High German butera

Noun

Butter

butter

Usage notes

Butter is feminine in standard German Hochdeutsch but masculine in the Swabian dialect.

Category:German nouns

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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Butter \But"ter\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Buttered (?); p. pr. &
vb. n. Buttering.]
1. To cover or spread with butter.
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I know what's what. I know on which side
My bread is buttered. --Ford.
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2. To increase, as stakes, at every throw or every game.
[Cant] --Johnson.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Butter \But"ter\ (b[u^]t"t[~e]r), n. [OE. botere, butter, AS.
butere, fr. L. butyrum, Gr. boy`turon; either fr. boy`s ox,
cow + turo`s cheese; or, perhaps, of Scythian origin. Cf.
Cow.]
1. An oily, unctuous substance obtained from cream or milk by
churning.
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2. 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.
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Butter boat, a small vessel for holding melted butter at
table.

Butter flower, the buttercup, a yellow flower.

Butter print, a piece of carved wood used to mark pats of
butter; -- called also butter stamp. --Locke.

Butter tooth, either of the two middle incisors of the
upper jaw.

Butter tree (Bot.), a tree of the genus Bassia, the seeds
of which yield a substance closely resembling butter. The
butter tree of India is the Bassia butyracea; that of
Africa is the Shea tree (Bassia Parkii). See {Shea
tree}.

Butter trier, a tool used in sampling butter.

Butter wife, a woman who makes or sells butter; -- called
also butter woman. [Obs. or Archaic]
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Butter \Butt"er\, n.
One who, or that which, butts.
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WordNet Butter
n 1: an edible emulsion of fat globules made by churning milk or
cream; for cooking and table use
2: a fighter who strikes the opponent with his head
v : spread butter on; "butter bread"

Moby Dictionary
albumen , batter , bedaub , besmear , blandness , blarney , blubber ,
bonnyclabber , breeze , butter up , buttermilk , cataplasm ,
certified milk , cheese , clabber , clay , coat , condensed milk ,
cornstarch , cream , crush , curd , cushion , dab , dairy products , daub ,
dental pulp , dough , down , egg white , eiderdown , enamel , fair words ,
feather bed , feathers , fleece , floss , flue , fluff , foam ,
fulsomeness , gaum , gel , gelatin , get around , ghee , gild , glair ,
glibness , glop , gloss , glue , gluten , goo , gook , goop , gruel , gumbo ,
gunk , half-and-half , heavy cream , honey , honeyed words , incense ,
jam , jell , jelly , jolly , kapok , kid along , lacquer , lay it on ,
lay on , light cream , loblolly , margarine , mash , milk , molasses ,
mucilage , mucus , mush , nonfat dry milk , oil , oiliness , oleo ,
oleomargarine , overdo it , pap , paper pulp , paste , pillow , pith ,
plaster , play up to , plush , porridge , poultice , prime , pudding ,
puff , pulp , pulp lead , pulpwood , puree , putty , rag pulp , raw milk ,
rob , rubber , satin , sauce , semifluid , semiliquid , silk , size ,
skim milk , slap on , slather , smash , smear , smear on , smoothness ,
smugness , soap , soft soap , soft words , soft-soap , soften up , soup ,
sour cream , sponge , spread on , spread with , squash , starch ,
sticky mess , string along , stroke , suaveness , suavity ,
sulfate pulp , sulfite pulp , swansdown , sweet talk , sweet words ,
syrup , tar , thistledown , treacle , unctuousness , undercoat , velvet ,
wax , whey , whipping cream , white lead , wood pulp , wool , yogurt ,
zephyr

Butter (Heb. hemah), curdled milk (Gen. 18:8; Judg. 5:25; 2 Sam. 17:29), or butter in the form of the skim of hot milk or cream, called by the Arabs kaimak, a semi-fluid (Job 20:17; 29:6; Deut. 32:14). The words of Prov. 30:33 have been rendered by some "the pressure [not churning] of milk bringeth forth cheese."