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butterfly
English
Etymology
From Middle English buterflie, butturflye, boterflye, from Old English butorfl?oge, buttorfl?oge, buterfl?oge (from butere (“butter”)), equivalent to butter +? fly. Cognate with Dutch botervlieg, German Butterfliege (“butterfly”). The name may have originally been applied to butterflies of a yellowish color, and/or reflected a belief that butterflies ate milk and butter (compare German Molkendieb (“butterfly”, literally “whey thief”) and Low German Botterlicker (“butterfly”, literally “butter-licker”)), or that they excreted a butter-like substance (compare Dutch boterschijte (“butterfly”, literally “butter-shitter”)). Compare also German Schmetterling from Schmetten (“cream”), German Low German Bottervögel (“butterfly”, literally “butter-fowl”). More at butter, fly.
An alternate theory suggests that the first element may have originally been butor- (“beater”), a mutation of b?atan (“to beat”).
Superseded non-native Middle English papilion (“butterfly”) borrowed from Old French papillon (“butterfly”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?b?t?(?)fla?/
- (US, Canada) IPA(key): [?b???fla?]
- (UK) IPA(key): [?b?t?fla?]
- Rhymes: -a?
Noun
butterfly (plural butterflies)
- A flying insect of the order Lepidoptera, distinguished from moths by their diurnal activity and generally brighter colouring. [from 11th c.]
- A use of surgical tape, cut into thin strips and placed across an open wound to hold it closed.
- (swimming) The butterfly stroke. [from 20th c.]
- (in the plural) A sensation of excited anxiety felt in the stomach.
- I get terrible butterflies before an exam.
- (now rare) Someone seen as being unserious and (originally) dressed gaudily; someone flighty and unreliable. [from 17th c.]
- 1859, George Meredith, The Ordeal of Richard Feverel, Chapter 15:
- He was affable; therefore he was frivolous. The women liked him; therefore he was a butterfly.
- 1859, George Meredith, The Ordeal of Richard Feverel, Chapter 15:
Synonyms
- lep
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
butterfly (third-person singular simple present butterflies, present participle butterflying, simple past and past participle butterflied)
- (transitive) To cut (food) almost entirely in half and spread the halves apart, in a shape suggesting the wings of a butterfly.
- butterflied shrimp
- Butterfly the chicken before you grill it.
- (transitive) To cut strips of surgical tape or plasters into thin strips, and place across (a gaping wound) to close it.
See also
- caterpillar
- flutterby
- moth
- Appendix: Animals
- Appendix:English collective nouns
References
Anagrams
- flutterby
Danish
Noun
butterfly c (singular definite butterflyen, plural indefinite butterfly)
- bowtie
Inflection
butterfly From the web:
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spatchcock
English
Etymology
Related to spitchcock (“to split and broil an eel”), of uncertain origin. Possibly a corruption of dispatch + cock.
Noun
spatchcock (plural spatchcocks)
- Chicken meat when prepared by spatchcocking. (See below.)
- A rushed effort.
Verb
spatchcock (third-person singular simple present spatchcocks, present participle spatchcocking, simple past and past participle spatchcocked)
- To cut poultry along the spine and spread the halves apart, for more even cooking when grilled.
- spatchcocked chicken
- To interpolate, insert or sandwich (in or into)
- 1922, Joyce, Ulysses, chapter 9
- Why is the underplot of King Lear in which Edmund figures lifted out of Sidney's Arcadia and spatchcocked on to a Celtic legend older than history?
- 1922, Joyce, Ulysses, chapter 9
- To prepare in haste.
Synonyms
- (prepare chicken): frog
Derived terms
- spatchcocking (n.)
- spatchcocked (adj.)
- spatchcock (n.)
See also
- butterfly
- spitchcock
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