Butter

proper nouncommon in dialogue

A surname.

proper noun

1
A surname.

Etymology

Various origins: * From butter, a metonymic occupational surname for a dairyman or seller of butter. * From Old French butor (“bittern”), a nickname for someone who resembled a bittern, perhaps because of his voice. * Borrowed from Dutch and German Butter, possibly a short form of various compound names.

Forms

plural: Butters

butt · The larger or thicker end of something; the blunt end, in…Butt · A surname. A surname from English.butter · A soft, fatty foodstuff made by churning the cream of milk…

Butter · A surname.

butterfly · A flying insect of the order Lepidoptera, distinguished from…butters · Ugly.Butters · A surname from Norman.

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