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butterfingers
English
Etymology
From butter +? fingers, suggesting that someone is clumsy and drops things as if their hands are coated in slippery butter.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?b?t??f????z/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?b?t??f????z/, [-??-]
- Hyphenation: but?ter?fing?ers
Noun
butterfingers (plural butterfingers)
- (idiomatic, informal) Someone who tends to drop things; (more generally) someone who is clumsy or uncoordinated; a klutz.
Alternative forms
- butter fingers
Derived terms
- butterfingered
Translations
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butter
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)
- 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).
- (obsolete, chemistry) Any specific soft substance.
- (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)
- (transitive) To spread butter on.
- 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.
- (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)
- 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.
- 2005, David E. Fastovsky, David B. Weishampel, The Evolution and Extinction of the Dinosaurs (page 156)
Etymology 3
Derived from the aviation slang term
Adjective
butter (comparative more butter, superlative most butter)
- Very smooth, very soft
- That landing was total butter!
French
Etymology
From butte.
Verb
butter
- to heap
Conjugation
Further reading
- “butter” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
German
Verb
butter
- inflection of buttern:
- first-person singular present
- singular imperative
Middle English
Noun
butter
- Alternative form of buter
Swedish
Adjective
butter (comparative buttrare, superlative buttrast)
- grumpy
Declension
Anagrams
- brutet, buttre
West Flemish
Noun
butter ?
- Alternative form of beuter
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