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A stick of butter (food made from cream) with a butter knife.
See also: Butter
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: bŭʹtər, IPA(key): /ˈbʌtəɹ/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈbʌtə/,
Audio (UK) (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /ˈbʌtɚ/,
Audio (US) (file) - (New Zealand) IPA(key): /ˈbatə/,
- (Scotland, Wales) IPA(key): /ˈbʌtɚ/,
- (Northern England, Midlands) IPA(key): /ˈbʊtə/
- Hyphenation: but‧ter
- Rhymes: -ʌtə(ɹ)
Etymology 1
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
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
- Any of various substances made from other (especially plant-based) oils or fats, used in moisturizers, 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, page 227:
- Butters are triglycerides […] . Cocoa butter (Theobroma cacao) is used as an emollient in topical cosmetic formulations, […] South American and the Brazilian rainforest offer various plants with common butters used in the industry that include […] cupuaçu butter […] and murumuru butter from the murumuru palm tree (Astrocaryum murumuru). India is another source of many butters used in cosmetic products, including kokum butter extracted from the seeds of the Garcinia indica tree, mango butter from the Mangifera indica tree and shea butter […]
- (obsolete, chemistry) Any specific soft substance.
- Butter of antimony; butter of arsenic
- (aviation, slang) A smooth plane landing.
- That landing was total butter!
Derived terms
Terms derived from butter (noun)
- almond-butter
- almond butter
- apple butter
- back butter
- back-butter
- bean-butter
- blue butter
- body butter
- bog butter
- brandy butter
- bread and butter
- bread-and-butter
- bread-and-butter issue
- bread-and-butter letter
- bread-and-butter note
- bread-and-butter pickle
- bread-and-butter plate
- bread-and-butter pudding
- bread and butter pudding
- brown butter
- budder
- bull butter
- butterable
- butter-and-egger
- butter-and-egg man
- butter-and-eggs
- butter bar
- butter bean
- butterbird
- butter boat
- butter bomb
- butter-box
- butter bread
- butter brickle
- butterburger
- butterbutt
- butter chicken
- butter clam
- buttercream
- butter cream
- buttercrunch
- butter curler
- butter dish
- butterdock
- butterer
- butter face
- butterface
- butterfaced
- butter fat
- butter-fat
- butter-fingered
- butter fingers
- butter flower
- butter fruit
- butterhead
- butterhorn
- butter icing
- butter lamp
- butterleaf
- butterlike
- butterman
- butter measure
- buttermint
- butter mochi
- buttermonger
- butter mountain
- butter-muslin
- butter muslin
- butter of antimony
- butter of arsenic
- butter of tin
- butter of zinc
- butter oil
- butteroil
- butter paddle
- butter paper
- butter pear
- butter pie
- butter plate
- butter salt
- butterscotch
- butter-slide
- butter slime
- butterspoon
- butter tart
- butter tea
- butter tooth
- butter tree
- butter will not melt in someone's mouth
- butterwoman
- butter-woman
- butter won't melt in someone's mouth
- butter would not melt in someone's mouth
- butter wouldn't melt in someone's mouth
- cacao butter
- cannabutter
- clarified butter
- cocoa butter
- compound butter
- cookie butter
- cowboy butter
- Cumberland rum butter
- drawn butter
- duck butter
- egg butter
- fairies' butter
- fairy butter
- garlic butter
- gooey butter cake
- guns and butter
- head-butter
- head butter
- herb butter
- honey butter
- kanya butter
- karite butter
- knob of butter
- land with one's bum in the butter
- like a hot knife through butter
- like a knife through butter
- like butter on a bald monkey
- lung butter
- maître d' butter
- melt someone's butter
- midshipman's butter
- nonbutter
- nun's butter
- nut-brown butter
- nut butter
- nutter
- palm butter
- palm-butter
- pea butter
- peanut butter
- peanut butter and jelly
- peanut-butter-and-jelly
- peanut butter cup
- peanut-butter cup
- poor man's butter
- print butter
- process butter
- put butter on one's bread
- rebutter
- renovated butter
- rock butter
- rum butter
- school-butter
- shea butter
- shea butter tree
- smooth as butter
- snail butter
- snuff-and-butter
- sugar-butter sauce
- sweet butter
- tanning butter
- truffle butter
- vegetable butter
- whipped butter
- whiskey butter
- whisky butter
- witches' butter
Related terms
Descendants
- → Japanese: バター (batā)
- → Korean: 빠다 (ppada) (North Korea), 버터 (beoteo) (South Korea)
- → Sinhalese: බටර් (baṭar)
- → Zulu: ibhotela
Translations
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. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.
Verb
butter (third-person singular simple present butters, present participle buttering, simple past and past participle buttered)
- (transitive) To spread butter on.
- Butter the toast.
- (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 then end of a butterknife.
- To spin on skis or a snowboard using only the tips or tails being in contact with the snow
- Hyponyms: nosebutter, tailbutter
- (slang, obsolete, transitive) To increase (stakes) at every throw of dice, or every game.
Derived terms
Terms derived from butter (verb)
- buttered
- buttering
- butter my butt and call it a biscuit
- butter my butt and call me a biscuit
- butter one's bread on both sides
- butter someone's biscuit
- butter the cony
- butter up
- fine words butter no parsnips
- have one's bread buttered for life
- know which side one's bread is buttered on
- nosebutter
- nosebuttered
- nosebuttering
- tailbutter
- tailbuttered
- tailbuttering
Translations
to spread butter on — see also spread, butter
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See also
Etymology 2
Noun
butter (plural butters)
- Someone who butts or 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.
French
Etymology
From butte.
Pronunciation
Audio (file)
Verb
butter
- to heap
- butter les pommes de terre.
- to heap the potatoes .
Conjugation
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, on | 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/ |
— | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
| 1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
(Christopher Kendris , Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Further reading
- “butter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.
German
Pronunciation
Audio (file)
Verb
butter
- inflection of buttern:
Lombard
Noun
butter
Middle English
Noun
butter
- Alternative form of buter
Swedish
Adjective
butter (comparative buttrare, superlative buttrast)
Declension
| Inflection of butter | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Indefinite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative2 |
| Common singular | butter | buttrare | buttrast |
| Neuter singular | buttert | buttrare | buttrast |
| Plural | buttra | buttrare | buttrast |
| Masculine plural3 | buttre | 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. 3) Dated or archaic | |||
References
- butter in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- butter in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- butter in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
Anagrams
West Flemish
Noun
butter ?
- Alternative form of beuter