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butter-bean plant |
butter-fingered |
butter-flower |
butter-print |
butter-scotch |
butterball
| butterbean
| butterbird
| butterbump
| butterbur
| buttercrunch
butterball
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun butterball has 2 senses
- butterball(n = noun.person) fat person, fatso, fatty, roly-poly - a rotund individual; Array is a kind of large person
- butterball(n = noun.animal) bucephela albeola, bufflehead, dipper - small North American diving duck; males have bushy head plumage; Array is a kind of duck
is a member of bucephala, genus bucephala
CIDE DICTIONARY
butterball, n.
- The buffel duck. [1913 Webster]
- a fat person or animal. [PJC]
- a lump of butter rounded into a ball. [PJC]
- a plump chicken or turkey prepared for cooking. [PJC]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
butterball, n.
1 a piece of butter shaped into a ball.
2 US = BUFFLEHEAD (because it is very fat in autumn).
3 US sl. a fat person.
1 a piece of butter shaped into a ball.
2 US = BUFFLEHEAD (because it is very fat in autumn).
3 US sl. a fat person.
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