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Definition butter

Etymology 1

From Middle English buter, butter, from Old English butere (“butter”), from Proto-Germanic *buter? (“butter”) (compare West Frisian bûter, Dutch boter, German Butter), from Latin b?t?rum, from Ancient Greek ???????? (boút?ron, “cow cheese”), compound of ???? (boûs, “ox, cow”) and ????? (t?rós, “cheese”).

Compare Avestan ?????‎ (t?iri, “curdled milk, whey”)), from Proto-Indo-European *tuHrós (compare Middle Indic [script needed] (t?ra, “cheese”), Russian ??????? (tvoróg, “curds, soft cheese”), Old English þweran (“to churn”), geþweor (“curds”)).

Noun

butter (usually uncountable, plural butters)

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

Verb

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

1. (transitive) To spread butter on.
2. 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.
3. (slang, obsolete, transitive) To increase (stakes) at every throw of dice, or every game.

Etymology 2

butt +‎ -er

Noun

butter (plural butters)

1. Someone who butts, or who butts in.

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