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English

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A stick of butter(food made from cream) with abutter knife.
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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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PIE word
*gʷṓws

FromMiddle Englishbuter,butter, fromOld Englishbutere, fromProto-West Germanic*buterā, fromLatinbūtȳrum, fromAncient Greekβούτῡρον(boútūron,“cow cheese”), compound ofβοῦς(boûs,“ox, cow”) andτῡρός(tūrós,“cheese”).

Alternative forms

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Noun

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butter (usuallyuncountable,pluralbutters)

  2. A soft, fatty foodstuff made bychurning thecream ofmilk (generally cow's milk).
    Coordinate terms:lard,shortening,fat,drippings,renderings,double cream,curdled cream,clotted cream
  3. (cooking) Any of various foodstuffs made from other foods or oils, similar in consistency to, eaten like or intended as a substitute for butter (preceded by the name of the food used to make it).
    Coordinate term:margarine
    peanutbutter
    soybutter
    chocolatebutter
  4. Any of various substances made from other (especially plant-based) oils or fats, used inmoisturizers,cosmetics, etc.
    • 2016 September 7, Elaine Stavert,Beauty Oils & Butter, GMC PUBLICATIONS LTD,→ISBN:
      Butters such as cocoa, illippe, kokum, mango, murumuru, sal (shorea) and shea occur naturally and are obtained directly from the plant.
    • 2019 April 5, Heather A.E. Benson, Michael S. Roberts, Vania Rodrigues Leite-Silva, Kenneth Walters,Cosmetic Formulation: Principles and Practice, CRC Press,→ISBN, page227:
      Butters are triglycerides[…].Cocoabutter (Theobroma cacao) is used as an emollient in topical cosmetic formulations,[…] South American and the Brazilian rainforest offer various plants with commonbutters used in the industry that include[…] cupuaçubutter[…] and murumuru butter from the murumuru palm tree (Astrocaryum murumuru). India is another source of manybutters used in cosmetic products, including kokumbutter extracted from the seeds of theGarcinia indica tree, mangobutter from theMangifera indica tree and sheabutter […]
  5. (obsolete, chemistry) Any specificsoftsubstance.
    butter of antimony;butter of arsenic
  6. (slang, sometimes attributive) Something that issmooth,impressive, orappealing.(Comparesmooth as butter.)[2]
    1. (aviation, slang) A smooth plane landing.
      That landing was totalbutter!
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Terms derived frombutter (noun)
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Descendants
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Translations
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soft foodstuff made from milk
other foodstuffs like butter
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Verb

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butter (third-person singular simple presentbutters,present participlebuttering,simple past and past participlebuttered)

  1. (transitive) Tospread butter on.
    Butter the toast.
  2. (skiing, snowboarding) To move one's weight backwards or forwards onto the tips or tails of one's skis or snowboard so only the tip or tail is in contact with the snow. Similar to applying butter to bread with the end of a knife.
    1. To spin on skis or a snowboard using only the tips or tails being in contact with the snow
    Hyponyms:nosebutter,tailbutter
  3. (slang, obsolete, transitive) Toincrease (stakes) at everythrow ofdice, or everygame.
Derived terms
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Terms derived frombutter (verb)
Translations
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to spread butter on—see alsospread,‎butter
See also
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Etymology 2

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Frombutt +‎-er.

Noun

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butter (pluralbutters)

  1. Someone or something thatbutts.
    • 2005, David E. Fastovsky, David B. Weishampel,The Evolution and Extinction of the Dinosaurs, page156:
      […] these animals lacked self-correcting mechanisms of the kind seen in modern head-butters such as goats and big-horn sheep that would have kept the tremendous forces aligned with the rest of the skeleton.
  2. Someone or something thatbutts in; abusybody.

References

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  1. ^Hickey, Raymond (1998). Developments and change in Dublin English. Language Change.pp. 11
  2. ^“butter adj.2”, inGreen’s Dictionary of Slang,Jonathon Green, 2016–present

French

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Etymology

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Frombutte.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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butter

  1. toheap
    butter les pommes de terre.
    to heap the potatoes [onto something].

Conjugation

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Conjugation ofbutter(see alsoAppendix:French verbs)
infinitivesimplebutter
compoundavoir + past participle
present participle orgerund1simplebuttant
/by.tɑ̃/
compoundayant + past participle
past participlebutté
/by.te/
singularplural
firstsecondthirdfirstsecondthird
indicativeje (j’)tuil, elle, onnousvousils, elles
(simple
tenses)		presentbutte
/byt/		buttes
/byt/		butte
/byt/		buttons
/by.tɔ̃/		buttez
/by.te/		buttent
/byt/
imperfectbuttais
/by.tɛ/		buttais
/by.tɛ/		buttait
/by.tɛ/		buttions
/by.tjɔ̃/		buttiez
/by.tje/		buttaient
/by.tɛ/
past historic2buttai
/by.te/		buttas
/by.ta/		butta
/by.ta/		buttâmes
/by.tam/		buttâtes
/by.tat/		buttèrent
/by.tɛʁ/
futurebutterai
/by.tʁe/		butteras
/by.tʁa/		buttera
/by.tʁa/		butterons
/by.tʁɔ̃/		butterez
/by.tʁe/		butteront
/by.tʁɔ̃/
conditionalbutterais
/by.tʁɛ/		butterais
/by.tʁɛ/		butterait
/by.tʁɛ/		butterions
/by.tə.ʁjɔ̃/		butteriez
/by.tə.ʁje/		butteraient
/by.tʁɛ/
(compound
tenses)		present perfectpresent indicative ofavoir + past participle
pluperfectimperfect indicative ofavoir + past participle
past anterior2past historic ofavoir + past participle
future perfectfuture ofavoir + past participle
conditional perfectconditional ofavoir + past participle
subjunctiveque je (j’)que tuqu’il, qu’elleque nousque vousqu’ils, qu’elles
(simple
tenses)		presentbutte
/byt/		buttes
/byt/		butte
/byt/		buttions
/by.tjɔ̃/		buttiez
/by.tje/		buttent
/byt/
imperfect2buttasse
/by.tas/		buttasses
/by.tas/		buttât
/by.ta/		buttassions
/by.ta.sjɔ̃/		buttassiez
/by.ta.sje/		buttassent
/by.tas/
(compound
tenses)		pastpresent subjunctive ofavoir + past participle
pluperfect2imperfect subjunctive ofavoir + past participle
imperative–tu–nousvous–
simple—butte
/byt/		—buttons
/by.tɔ̃/		buttez
/by.te/		—
compound—simple imperative ofavoir + past participle—simple imperative ofavoir + past participlesimple imperative ofavoir + past participle—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the prepositionen.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
past historic → present perfect
past anterior → pluperfect
imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive
pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive

(Christopher Kendris [1995],Master the Basics: French, pp.77,78,79,81).

Further reading

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German

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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butter

  1. inflection ofbuttern:
    1. first-personsingularpresent
    2. singularimperative

Lombard

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Noun

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butter

  1. butter

Middle English

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Noun

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butter

  1. alternative form ofbuter

Swedish

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Adjective

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butter (comparativebuttrare,superlativebuttrast)

  1. grumpy

Declension

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Inflection ofbutter
Indefinitepositivecomparativesuperlative1
common singularbutterbuttrarebuttrast
neuter singularbuttertbuttrarebuttrast
pluralbuttrabuttrarebuttrast
masculine plural2buttrebuttrarebuttrast
Definitepositivecomparativesuperlative
masculine singular3buttrebuttrarebuttraste
allbuttrabuttrarebuttraste

1 The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative.
2 Dated or archaic.
3 Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.

References

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Anagrams

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West Flemish

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Noun

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butter ?

  1. alternative form ofbeuter
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