butter
- noun
- /ˈbʌtər/
- I spilled butter all over my clothes.
- bread and butter
- peanut butter
- guns and butter
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Examples
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Dinner was wonderful: huge platters of lasagna, soft hot rolls with sweet butter, and salad for greenery.
Fiction book (1990) -
For breakfast, we got white bread, peanut butter, and marmalade with coffee, but no milk.
Academic text (2008) -
I could use some butter.
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Just a touch of butter.
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There was no milk in the coffee nor butter in those days.
Academic text (1995) -
We have sugar, we have butter, we have also flour and salt.
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You like peanut butter, Kim?
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I'm gonna use two sticks of butter, one hard, one soft.
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ASHLEY: Grammy, can I have some butter, please?
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To make the cake: Cream sugar and butter in a large mixing bowl until light and fluffy.
Synonyms
A soft yellow food made from milk used for cooking and spreading
A clear cooking fat made by melting butter and removing water and solid bits of milk
Melted butter with the solid parts of milk removed that is used as a sauce for seafood
Melted butter cooked until it turns brown and tastes nutty
Idioms
Seems very innocent and quiet but is not really kind
To benefit from two people or groups at the same time by being dishonest
- Informal
A funny phrase people say when they cannot believe something
Compounds
- US
A thick sweet spread from apples slowly cooked with sugar and spices until smooth
A soft cream-like fat made from the nut of an African tree used on skin and in cooking
A clear cooking fat made by melting butter and removing water and solid bits of milk
- US
Melted butter with the solid parts of milk removed that is used as a sauce for seafood
A type of butter that chefs mix with chopped lobster or lobster flavor to spread on food
- Specialized
Butter browned and flavored with lemon and parsley served over fish or vegetables
A yellow jelly fungus that grows on rotting wood and looks like lumps of butter
- Specialized
A flavored butter mixed with shallots, parsley and white wine to top grilled meat or fish
A bush that grows small flat beans you can eat, often served as a vegetable
- US
An annual plant with grey-green leaves and bright yellow flowers that grows in dry sunny places
A plant from Europe with bright yellow and orange flowers often seen as a weed
- Specialized
A flavored butter made with parsley, tarragon, and beef extract served on meat
How Fatty
- Specialized
- US
Surface Forms
Etymology
Butter comes from an old Greek word made of bout- 'cow' and tyron 'cheese', so it originally meant 'cow cheese'. That's why butter today is the creamy fat made from milk that we use for cooking and as a spread.