butter

Speech parts

1. butter - Noun

2. butter - Verb

3. Butter - Proper noun

Meaning

An oily, unctuous substance obtained from cream or milk by churning.

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.

To cover or spread with butter.

To increase, as stakes, at every throw or every game.

One who, or that which, butts.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

ghee jolly parmesan putty hatter earwig blarney faun coquet oil stroke petroleum Sudanese paraffin tallow
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Antonyms

moccasin abuse cream straw insult disdain
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Hypernyms

food cover fighter combatant belligerent battler

Hyponyms

stick drawn butter clarified butter brown butter beurre noisette lemon butter

Phrases with the word

bread and butter butter up butter fingers butter cake Coconut butter like a knife through butter

Derivatives

buttered buttering

Examples

Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance. William O. Douglas

To one, science is an exalted goddess; to another it is a cow which provides him with butter. Friedrich Schiller

Guns will make us powerful; butter will only make us fat. Hermann Göring

You can kill a dog more way than by choking it with butter. Irish Proverb

One can't spoil porridge with butter. Russian Proverb

Manage with bread and salted butter until God brings something to eat with it. Moroccan Proverb

Close letter words and terms

butted in butted joint Butten butter alternative butter bar butter bean