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German
Etymology
Butter (“butter”) + Vogel (“bird”)
Noun
Buttervogel m (strong, genitive Buttervogels, plural Buttervögel)
- (obsolete) Synonym of Schmetterling
1920 [1910], Hermann Löns, Der Wehrwolf [The Warwolf]:Es waren Rosen gewachsen, aus denen wieder Rosen kamen, das Brot hatte geblutet, auf den Koppelwegen lagen Sternschnuppen, drei Tage hintereinander im Juli kamen Unmassen von Schillebolden über die Haide geflogen und hinterher ebensoviele Buttervögel; […]- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Declension
Declension of Buttervogel
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