butter
- noun
- /ˈbʌtər/
- I spilled butter all over my clothes.
- bread and butter
- peanut butter
- guns and butter
Use grass fed or ghee butter or or tallow.
- Use grass fed or ghee butter or or tallow.
- Is it bad for the butter to be like what?
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
Melted butter cooked until it turns brown and tastes nutty
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
Idioms
- Informal
A funny phrase people say when they cannot believe something
To benefit from two people or groups at the same time by being dishonest
Compounds
- US
A thick sweet spread from apples slowly cooked with sugar and spices until smooth
A clear cooking fat made by melting butter and removing water and solid bits of milk
A soft cream-like fat made from the nut of an African tree used on skin and in cooking
- US
Melted butter with the solid parts of milk removed that is used as a sauce for seafood
- 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
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
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.