Butter in Scrabble and Meaning

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butter

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: bŭʹtər, IPA^(key): /ˈbʌtəɹ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈbʌtə/, [ˈbɐtʰə]
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈbʌtɚ/, [ˈbʌɾɚ]
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈbatə/, [ˈbaɾə]
• (Scotland, Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈbʌtɚ/, [ˈbʌʔɚ]
• (Northern England, Midlands) IPA^(key): /ˈbʊtə/
• (Local Dublin) IPA^(key): /ˈbʊhɐ/
• 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)

2. A soft, fatty foodstuff made by churning the cream of milk (generally cow's milk).
3. 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).

4. Any of various substances made from other (especially plant-based) oils or fats, used in moisturizers, cosmetics, etc.
5. (obsolete, chemistry) Any specific soft substance.

6. (aviation, slang) A smooth plane landing.

Derived terms

Related terms

• butterface
• butterfly
• butter-ham

Descendants

• → Japanese: バター (batā)
• → Korean: 빠다 (ppada) (North Korea), 버터 (beoteo) (South Korea)
• → Sinhalese: බටර් (baṭar)
• → Zulu: ibhotela

Translations

Verb

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

1. (transitive) To spread butter on.

2. (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 the end of a knife.
   1. To spin on skis or a snowboard using only the tips or tails being in contact with the snow

   Hyponyms: nosebutter, tailbutter

3. (slang, obsolete, transitive) To increase (stakes) at every throw of dice, or every game.

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Translations

See also

• butyraceous
• ghee

Etymology 2

From butt +‎ -er.

Noun

butter (plural butters)

1. Someone or something that butts.
2. Someone or something that butts in; a busybody.

References

French

Etymology

From butte.

Pronunciation

Verb

butter

1. to heap

Conjugation

Further reading

• “butter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

German

Pronunciation

Verb

butter

1. inflection of buttern:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. singular imperative

Lombard

Noun

butter

1. butter

Middle English

Noun

butter

1. alternative form of buter

Swedish

Adjective

butter (comparative buttrare, superlative buttrast)

1. grumpy

Declension

References

• butter in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• butter in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• butter in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Anagrams

• brutet, buttre

West Flemish

Noun

butter ?

1. alternative form of beuter