buter

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See also: bûter

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buter

  1. to stop dead
  2. to prop up, buttress
  3. (figuratively) to kill
  4. (figuratively) to obsess; to become obsessed

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Etymology[edit]

From Old English butere, from Proto-West Germanic *buterā, from Latin būtȳrum, from Ancient Greek βούτῡρον (boútūron).

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buter (uncountable)

  1. butter (spread made of churned cream)

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  • English: butter (see there for further descendants)
  • Scots: butter, buter
  • Yola: buthther, buththere

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