butter

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but·ter [butter butters buttered buttering] noun, verb BrE [ˈbʌtə(r)] NAmE [ˈbʌtər]
noun uncountable
a soft yellow food made from cream, used in cooking and for spreading on bread
• Fry the onions in butter.
• Do you want butter or margarine on your toast?
see also ↑bread and butter, ↑peanut butter
more at like a knife through butter at ↑knife _v.

Word Origin:
Old English butere, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch boter and German Butter, based on Latin butyrum, from Greek bouturon.

Example Bank:
•Cream the butter and icing sugar together until light and fluffy.
•He put a large knob of butter on the potatoes.
•He spread butter on the roll.
•Put some butter on the crackers, please.
•Rub the butter into the flour.
•The butter melted in the heat.
•This butter doesn't spread very well.
•You can make frosting out of half a stick of butter and two cups of powdered sugar.
•courgettes sautéed in butter
•If you're still hungry, have some bread and butter.
Idiom: ↑butter wouldn't melt
Derived: ↑butter somebody up
 
verb ~ sth
to spread butter on sth
• She buttered four thick slices of bread.
see know which side your bread is buttered at ↑know _v.
Verb forms:

Word Origin:
Old English butere, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch boter and German Butter, based on Latin butyrum, from Greek bouturon.

Example Bank:
•lightly buttered toast