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English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- enPR: bŭʹtər, IPA(key): /ˈbʌtəɹ/
- (Northern England, Midlands) IPA(key): /ˈbʊtə/
- Rhymes: -ʊtə(ɹ)
- Hyphenation: but‧ter
Etymology 1[edit]
From Middle English buter, butter, from Old English butere, from Proto-West Germanic *buterā, from Latin būtȳrum, from Ancient Greek βούτῡρον (boútūron, “cow cheese”), compound of βοῦς (boûs, “ox, cow”) and τῡρός (tūrós, “cheese”).
Noun[edit]
butter (usually uncountable, plural butters)
- A soft, fatty foodstuff made by churning the cream of milk (generally cow's milk).
- 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
- soy butter
- chocolate butter
- (obsolete, chemistry) Any specific soft substance.
- Butter of antimony; butter of arsenic
- (aviation, slang) A smooth plane landing.
Derived terms[edit]
Terms derived from butter (noun)
- almond-butter
- apple butter
- bean-butter
- blue butter
- body butter
- bog-butter
- brandy butter
- bread and butter
- bread buttered on both sides
- butteraceous
- butter-ale
- butter-and-egg man
- butter and eggs, butter-and-eggs
- butter and tallow tree
- butter-back
- butter-badger
- butter-bag
- butter-bake
- butter-ball, butterball
- butter-barrel
- butter-basher
- butter bean
- butter-bird
- butter-bitten
- butter-boat
- butterbore
- butter-bowzy
- butter-box
- butter-boy
- butterbread
- butter brickle
- butterbur
- butter-bush
- butter-cake
- butterchurn
- butter clam
- butter cloth
- butter color, butter colour
- butter-cooler
- butter cream
- buttercross
- buttercup
- butter curler
- butter-cutter
- butter dish, butter-dish
- butter dock, butter-dock
- butter-duck
- butter-factor
- butter fat, butter-fat, butterfat
- butter-fingered, butterfingered
- butter-fingers, butterfingers
- butter-fish, butterfish
- butter-flip
- butter-flower
- butter icing
- butterie
- butterine
- butterish
- butter-jags
- butter knife, butter-knife
- butter-lamp
- butter-leaves
- butterless
- butter letter
- butter-man
- butter-mark
- butter-milk, buttermilk
- butter-mold, butter-mould
- butter-mouth
- butter muslin
- butter-nut, butternut
- butter of almonds
- butter of antimony
- butter of arsenic
- butter of bismuth
- butter of cacao
- butter of mace
- butter of tin
- butter of wax
- butter of zinc
- butter oil
- butter paddle
- butter paper
- butter-pat
- butter-pear
- butter-plate
- butter-print
- butter-queen
- butter-rigged
- butter-root
- butter salt
- butter scoop
- butterscot, butter-scotch, butterscotch
- butter-slide, butterslide
- butter spade
- butter-spreader
- butter stamp
- butter-stick
- butter substitute
- butter tart
- butter-toast
- butter tongs
- butter-tooth
- butter-toothed
- butter-tree
- butter trier
- butter-weed, butterweed
- butter week
- butter-weight
- butter-whore
- butter-wife
- butter-woman
- butter-worker
- butter-working
- butterwort
- butter would not melt in one's mouth
- buttery
- butter yellow
- cacao butter
- clarified butter
- cocoa butter
- coconut butter
- cocum butter, kokum butter
- dika-butter
- drawn butter
- duck butter
- embuttered
- fairy butter, fairy's butter
- Galam butter
- gren butter
- mahwa-butter
- make butter and cheese of
- May butter
- melted butter
- nut butter
- palm-butter
- peanut butter
- process butter
- renovated butter
- rock butter
- rum butter
- shea butter
- sugar-butter sauce
- sweet butter
- vegetable butter
- witches' butter
Related terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
soft foodstuff made from milk
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other foodstuffs like butter
- The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.
Verb[edit]
butter (third-person singular simple present butters, present participle buttering, simple past and past participle buttered)
- (transitive) To spread butter on.
- Butter the toast.
- 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.
- (slang, obsolete, transitive) To increase (stakes) at every throw of dice, or every game.
Derived terms[edit]
Terms derived from butter (verb)
Translations[edit]
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See also[edit]
Etymology 2[edit]
Noun[edit]
butter (plural butters)
- Someone who butts, or who butts in.
- 2005, David E. Fastovsky, David B. Weishampel, The Evolution and Extinction of the Dinosaurs (page 156)
- […] 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.
- 2005, David E. Fastovsky, David B. Weishampel, The Evolution and Extinction of the Dinosaurs (page 156)
Etymology 3[edit]
Derived from the aviation slang term
Adjective[edit]
butter (comparative more butter, superlative most butter)
- Very smooth, very soft
- That landing was total butter!
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From butte.
Verb[edit]
butter
- to heap
- butter les pommes de terre.
- to heap the potatoes [onto something].
Conjugation[edit]
Conjugation of butter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | butter | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | buttant /by.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | butté /by.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | butte /byt/ |
buttes /byt/ |
butte /byt/ |
buttons /by.tɔ̃/ |
buttez /by.te/ |
buttent /byt/ |
| imperfect | buttais /by.tɛ/ |
buttais /by.tɛ/ |
buttait /by.tɛ/ |
buttions /by.tjɔ̃/ |
buttiez /by.tje/ |
buttaient /by.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | buttai /by.te/ |
buttas /by.ta/ |
butta /by.ta/ |
buttâmes /by.tam/ |
buttâtes /by.tat/ |
buttèrent /by.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | butterai /by.tʁe/ |
butteras /by.tʁa/ |
buttera /by.tʁa/ |
butterons /by.tʁɔ̃/ |
butterez /by.tʁe/ |
butteront /by.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | butterais /by.tʁɛ/ |
butterais /by.tʁɛ/ |
butterait /by.tʁɛ/ |
butterions /by.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
butteriez /by.tə.ʁje/ |
butteraient /by.tʁɛ/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | butte /byt/ |
buttes /byt/ |
butte /byt/ |
buttions /by.tjɔ̃/ |
buttiez /by.tje/ |
buttent /byt/ |
| imperfect2 | buttasse /by.tas/ |
buttasses /by.tas/ |
buttât /by.ta/ |
buttassions /by.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
buttassiez /by.ta.sje/ |
buttassent /by.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | butte /byt/ |
— | buttons /by.tɔ̃/ |
buttez /by.te/ |
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| compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
| 1 The French gerund is only usable with the preposition en. | |||||||
| 2 In less formal writing or speech, the past historic, past anterior, imperfect subjunctive and pluperfect subjunctive tenses may be found to have been replaced with the indicative present perfect, indicative pluperfect, present subjunctive and past subjunctive tenses respectively (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Further reading[edit]
- “butter” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
German[edit]
Verb[edit]
butter
- inflection of buttern:
Middle English[edit]
Noun[edit]
butter
- Alternative form of buter
Swedish[edit]
Adjective[edit]
butter (comparative buttrare, superlative buttrast)
Declension[edit]
| Inflection of butter | |||
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| Indefinite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative2 |
| Common singular | butter | buttrare | buttrast |
| Neuter singular | buttert | buttrare | buttrast |
| Plural | buttra | buttrare | buttrast |
| Definite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative |
| Masculine singular1 | buttre | buttrare | buttraste |
| All | buttra | buttrare | buttraste |
| 1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine. 2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative. | |||
Anagrams[edit]
West Flemish[edit]
Noun[edit]
butter ?
- Alternative form of beuter
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