butterball
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7.3
- noun
- /ˈbʌtərˌbɔl/
- Offensive
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- Like John, the man at the showers was large, tan, and striking, and next to him, the man in the yellow shorts looked fat and greasy, a butterball.
- a little butterball
- a fat butterball
Now he's like a little butterball, the cartel kid.
- Now he's like a little butterball, the cartel kid.
- Nah, maybe, but I would walk into school being a shiny little butterball.
Examples
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When he was a child, he was a chubby little butterball that everyone adored.
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Well, I was a butterball.
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When you look at a baby soon after birth, you essentially see a little butterball.
Academic text (2005) -
Well, you haven't been a butterball for a long time.
Fiction book (2000) -
I remember my elementary school teacher running into me and, with a look of shock and horror, saying something like, "OMG, you are so thin, you need to eat... you used to be such a butterball."
Blog text (5) -
There was Eldridge, E.G., a round, gleaming butterball of a black man in his fifties who wore a suit and tie and gave off a powerful fragrance of cologne.
Fiction book (2001) -
At family gatherings, my grandmother would always call me her little butterball because of my round cheeks.
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Even as an adult, he still has the nickname butterball from his friends due to his plump figure.
Synonyms
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8.4
An insulting word for a person, often a child, who is much heavier than others
22
9.9
An insulting name for a very overweight person
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9.0
A short, slightly fat person often called that name in a friendly or teasing way
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7.7
A person who is round and plump
A person or animal that is short and a little chubby
A small, chubby person people tease
Antonyms
How Plump
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Butterball for a person comes from butter + ball, like 'a ball of butter', so it creates an image of someone soft and round and is used as a gentle, teasing name for a chubby person.