butter

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Butter (1) stick with a butter knife.
See also Butter

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Old English butere < a West Germanic borrowing of Latin butyrum < Greek βούτυρον boutyron (perhaps literally ‘cow-cheese’, from βούς bous ‘ox, cow’ + τυρός tyros ‘cheese’). The West Germanic source also gave Dutch boter, German Butter.

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Singular
butter

Plural
uncountable

butter (uncountable)

  1. (uncountable) A soft, fatty foodstuff made by churning the cream of milk (generally cow's milk).
  2. (countable) (obsolete) (chemistry) Any specific soft substance
  3. (uncountable) 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).
    peanut butter

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Infinitive
to butter

Third person singular
butters

Simple past
buttered

Past participle
buttered

Present participle
buttering

to butter (third-person singular simple present butters, present participle buttering, simple past and past participle buttered)

  1. (transitive) To spread butter on.
    Butter the toast.

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Inflections of
butter
Absolute Comparative Superlative
Attributive Predicative
Indefinite
singular
Common butter buttrare buttrast
Neuter buttert
Definite
singular
Masc. buttre buttraste
All buttra buttraste
Plural buttra buttraste

butter

  1. grumpy
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