different between butter vs mayo

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: b??t?r, IPA^(key): /?b?t??/
  • • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?b?t?/, [?b?t??]
    • (General American) IPA^(key): /?b?t?/, [?b???]
    • (Scotland, Wales) IPA^(key): /?b?t?/, [?b???], /?b?t?/
  • Rhymes: -?t?(?)
• (Northern England, Midlands) IPA^(key): /?b?t?/
  • Rhymes: -?t?(?)
• Hyphenation: but?ter

Etymology 1

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

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.

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

Derived terms

Related terms

• butterfly
• butter-ham

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. 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.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• butyraceous
• ghee

Etymology 2

butt +? -er

Noun

butter (plural butters)

1. Someone who butts, or who butts in.
   • 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.

Etymology 3

Derived from the aviation slang term

Adjective

butter (comparative more butter, superlative most butter)

1. Very smooth, very soft

   That landing was total butter!

French

Etymology

From butte.

Verb

butter

1. to heap

Conjugation

Further reading

• “butter” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

German

Verb

butter

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

Middle English

Noun

butter

1. Alternative form of buter

Swedish

Adjective

butter (comparative buttrare, superlative buttrast)

1. grumpy

Declension

Anagrams

• brutet, buttre

West Flemish

Noun

butter ?

1. Alternative form of beuter

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?me?.o?/

Noun

mayo (countable and uncountable, plural mayos)

1. Clipping of mayonnaise.

2. (offensive, derogatory, ethnic slur, Internet slang) A white person.

Synonyms

• (white person): see whitey

Anagrams

• Amoy, Moya, moya

Aragonese

Etymology

From Latin M?ius.

Noun

mayo m

1. May

Bikol Central

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /?ma.yo?/

Pronoun

mayò (Bikol Naga)

1. (indefinite) nothing, none

Adjective

mayò

1. absent

   Synonym: wara

   Antonyms: igwa, may

Dutch

Etymology

Clipping of mayonaise.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ma?.jo?/
• Hyphenation: ma?yo
• Rhymes: -a?jo?

Noun

mayo f (plural mayo's)

1. (informal) mayonnaise

   Synonym: mayonaise

Eastern Huasteca Nahuatl

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish mayo

Noun

mayo

1. May

Haitian Creole

Noun

mayo

1. t-shirt

Ido

Noun

mayo (plural mayi)

1. May (fifth month of the Gregorian calendar)

See also

• (Gregorian calendar months) monati di la Gregoriala kalendario; januaro, februaro, marto, aprilo, mayo, junio, julio, agosto, septembro, oktobro, novembro, decembro ^{(Category: io:Months)}

Japanese

Romanization

mayo

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Moose Cree

Alternative forms

[script needed]

Noun

mayo (transliteration needed)

1. feces

Old Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin M?ius, from M?ia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?majo/

Noun

mayo m

1. May

   • ben uennas mayo

     Welcome, May!

Descendants

• Galician: maio
• Portuguese: maio
  • Guinea-Bissau Creole: mai
  • Kabuverdianu: mai, maiu
  • ? Tetum: maiu

Portuguese

Noun

mayo m (plural mayos)

1. Obsolete spelling of maio

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin M?ius.

Pronunciation

Noun

mayo m (plural mayos)

1. May

Derived terms

• como agua de mayo

Descendants

• ? Bikol Central: Mayo
• ? Cebuano: Mayo
• ? Karao: Mayo
• ? Masbatenyo: Mayo
• ? Tagalog: Mayo
• ?? Classical Nahuatl: m?tztli mayo

See also

• (Gregorian calendar months) mes del calendario gregoriano; enero, febrero, marzo, abril, mayo, junio, julio, agosto, septiembre, octubre, noviembre, diciembre ^{(Category: es:Months)}

Further reading

• “mayo” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from French maillot.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?m?j?]

Noun

mayo (definite accusative mayoyu, plural mayolar)

1. swimsuit

Declension

See also

• bikini
• mayokini
• deniz ?ortu