# butter
## English
### Pronunciation

* enPR: bŭʹtər, IPA: /ˈbʌtəɹ/
* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈbʌtə/, [ˈbɐtʰə]
* Audio (UK):(file)
* (General American) IPA: /ˈbʌtɚ/, [ˈbʌɾɚ]
* Audio (US):(file)
* (New Zealand) IPA: /ˈbatə/, [ˈbaɾə]
* (Scotland, Wales) IPA: /ˈbʌtɚ/, [ˈbʌʔɚ]
* (Northern England, Midlands) IPA: /ˈbʊtə/
* (Local Dublin) IPA: /ˈbʊhɐ/
* Hyphenation: but‧ter
* Rhymes: -ʌtə(ɹ)

### Etymology 1

* PIE word
* *gʷṓws
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

* almond butter
* almond-butter
* apple butter
* back butter
* back-butter
* bean-butter
* black 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-egg money
* butter-and-eggs
* butter bar
* butter bean
* butterbird
* butter board
* butter boat
* butter bomb
* butter-box
* butter bread
* butter brickle
* butterburger
* butterbutt
* butter chicken
* butter clam
* butter cream
* buttercream
* buttercrunch
* butter curler
* butter dish
* butterdock
* butterer
* butter face
* butterface
* butterfaced
* butter-fat
* butter fat
* butter-fingered
* butter fingers
* butter flap
* butter flower
* butter fruit
* butterhead
* butterhorn
* butter icing
* butter keeper
* 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 pat
* butter pear
* butter pie
* butter plate
* butter salt
* butter scoop
* butterscotch
* butter-slide
* butter slime
* butterspoon
* butter tart
* butter tea
* butter tofu
* 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
* butter yellow
* 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
* green butter
* 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
* maple 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

* 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

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#### 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

* butter down
* 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 out
* 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

##### See also

* butyraceous
* ghee

### Etymology 2

From butt +‎ -er.

#### Noun

butter (plural butters)
* Someone or something that butts.
** 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.
* Someone or something that butts in; a busybody.

### References

* ↑ Hickey, Raymond (1998). Developments and change in Dublin English. Language Change. pp. 11

## French
### Etymology

From butte.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Verb

butter
* to heap
    butter les pommes de terre.to heap the potatoes [onto something].

#### Conjugation
### Further reading

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

## German
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Verb

butter
* inflection of buttern:
** first-person singular present
** singular imperative

## Lombard
### Noun

butter
* butter

## Middle English
### Noun

butter
* Alternative form of buter

## Swedish
### Adjective

butter (comparative buttrare, superlative buttrast)
* grumpy

#### Declension

$^1$ The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative. $^2$ Dated or archaic. $^3$ Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.

### 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 ?
* Alternative form of beuter