butter

noun

1. 1

   A soft, fatty foodstuff made by churning the cream of milk (generally cow's milk).

2. 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).

   peanut butter

   soy butter

   chocolate butter

3. 3

   Any of various substances made from other (especially plant-based) oils or fats, used in moisturizers, cosmetics, etc.

   Butters such as cocoa, illippe, kokum, mango, murumuru, sal (shorea) and shea occur naturally and are obtained directly from the plant.

4. 4

   obsoleteAny specific soft substance.

   butter of antimony; butter of arsenic

5. 5

   slangSomething that is smooth, impressive, or appealing. (Compare smooth as butter.)

   That “Confessions” into “Nice and Slow” transition [at the Super Bowl LVIII halftime show] was buttah !

6. 6

   slangSomething that is smooth, impressive, or appealing. (Compare smooth as butter.) A smooth plane landing.

   That landing was total butter!

verb

1. 1

   To spread butter on.

   Butter the toast.

2. 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. Similar to applying butter to bread with the end of a knife.

3. 3

   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 the end of a knife. To spin on skis or a snowboard using only the tips or tails being in contact with the snow

4. 4

   obsoleteTo increase (stakes) at every throw of dice, or every game.

noun

1. 1

   Someone or something that butts.

   […] 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.

2. 2

   Someone or something that butts in; a busybody.

Forms

plural

butters

past tense

buttered

past participle

buttered

present participle

buttering

third person singular

butters