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butters

nounverbadjectiveattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈbʌt.əz//
  • United States//ˈbʌ.tɚz//
  • United States/[ˈbʌ.ɾɚz]/

Ugly.

noun

  1. 1

    Also a form of butterplural of butter

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of butterthird-person singular simple present indicative of butter

adjective

  1. 1

    slangUgly.

Etymology

Originally a clipping of butterface (“a person with an attractive body but an unattractive face”) + -s (hypocoristic suffix).

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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).