See|Butter
Image:NCI butter.jpg|thumb|right|250 px|Butter (1) [[stick with a butter knife.]]
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Etymology
Old English butere < a West Germanic borrowing of Latin butyrum < Greek polytonic|βο����ον boutyron (perhaps literally �cow-cheese�, from polytonic|βο�� bous �ox, cow� + polytonic|����� tyros �cheese�). The West Germanic source also gave Dutch boter, German Butter.

Pronunciation
(UK): IPA|/�b�t�/, SAMPA|/"bVt.@/
(US): AHD|bŭtʹ�r, IPA|/�b�ɾ.�/, SAMPA|/"bV4.@`/
:audio|en-us-butter.ogg|Audio (US)
:Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-�t�(r)|-�t�(r)

Noun
en-noun|-|pl2=butters

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

Derived terms
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almond-butter
apple butter
as if butter would not melt in one's mouth
bean-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-ball, butterball
butter-back
butter-badger
butter-bag
butter-bake
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
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butter cloth
butter color, butter colour
butter-cooler
butter cream
butter cross
buttercup
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
<!--"butteriness" is under "buttery"-->
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
rel-mid4
butter of bismuth
butter of cacao
butter of mace
butter of tin
butter of wax
butter of zinc
butter oil
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
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
rel-mid4
butter-weight
butter-whore
butter-wife
butter-woman
butter-worker
butter-working
butterwort
buttery
butter yellow
cacao butter
clarified butter
cocoa butter
coconut butter
cocum butter, kokum butter
dika-butter
drawn butter
duck butter
fairy butter, fairy's butter
Galam butter
gren butter
know which side one's bread is buttered|know which side one's bread is buttered (on)
mahwa-butter
make butter and cheese of
May butter
melted butter
nut butter
palm-butter
peanut butter
rock butter
rum butter
run butter
shea butter
sugar-butter sauce
vegetable butter
witches' butter
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Related terms
butterfly<!--origin uncertain-->
butter-ham<!--from Dutch-->

Translations
trans-top|soft foodstuff made from milk
Arabic: ARchar|زبدة (zúbda) f
Bavarian: Budda m
Breton: amanenn m
Bulgarian: ма�ло#Bulgarian|ма�ло (máslo) n
Catalan: mantega f
Chinese: �油 (huáng-yóu)
Czech: máslo n
Danish: smør
Dutch: boter f
Esperanto: butero
Estonian: või, peagalööja
Finnish: voi
French: beurre m
German: Butter f
Greek: βο����ο (vútiro) n
Hebrew: ����|�ֶ�ְ�ָ� (khem'a) f
Hindi: न�न� (nonī)
Hungarian: vaj
Ido: butro
Interlingua: butyro
Italian: burro#Italian|burro m
Japanese: ��� (bat�)
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Kinyarwanda: amavuta
Korean: �� (beoteo)
Kurdish: KUchar|ک��ر��
Latvian: sviests m
Lithuanian: sviestas m
Macedonian: п��е� m
Mongolian: RUchar|�ө�гийн �о� (tsötsgiin tos)
Polish: mas�o n
Portuguese: manteiga f
Romanian: unt n
Russian: �ливо�ное ма�ло (slívo�noje máslo) n
Scottish Gaelic: ìm m
Serbian: ма�ла� (maslac) m
Slovak: maslo n
Slovene: maslo n, puter m (colloq.)
Spanish: mantequilla f, manteca f (Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay)
Swedish: smör n
Telugu: వ�న�న
Thai: THchar|��ย (noey)
Ukrainian: ма�ло#Ukrainian|ма�ло (máslo) n
Vietnamese: bơ
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trans-top|in chemistry
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trans-top|other foodstuffs like butter
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Verb
en-verb

1. transitive To spread butter on.

#:Butter the toast.

Derived terms
buttered<!--adjective-->
buttering<!--adjective and noun-->
butter one's bread on both sides
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

Translations
trans-top|to spread butter on
Czech: mazat máslo|máslem (impf.); namazat máslo|máslem; pomazat máslo|máslem (pf.)
Danish: smøre brødet
Dutch: beboteren, inboteren, met boter besmeren
French: beurrer
German: mit Butter bestreichen
Interlingua: butyrar
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Italian: imburrare
Polish: smarowa� mas�em
Portuguese: amanteigar; passar manteiga em
Russian: намаз�ва�� ма�ло|ма�лом (namázyvat� máslom)
Slovene: namazati z maslom
Spanish: untar mantequilla
Thai: THchar|�า��ย (ta noey)
Vietnamese: quẹt bơ (vào)
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See also
butyraceous
ghee

Category:1000 English basic words

Swedish

Adjective
sv-adj-reg|3=buttr
butter

1. grumpy

Category:Condiments
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