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noun (-, pl2=butters)
- (uncountable) A soft, fatty foodstuff made by churning the cream of milk (generally cow's milk).
- (countable) (obsolete) (chemistry) Any specific soft substance
- (uncountable) 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
Translations: - Dutch: boter
- French: beurre
- German: Butter
- Italian: burro
- Spanish: mantequilla , manteca (Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay)
verb
- (transitive) To spread butter on.
- Butter the toast.
Translations: - Dutch: beboteren, inboteren, met boter besmeren
- French: beurrer
- German: mit Butter bestreichen
- Italian: imburrare
- Spanish: untar mantequilla
Etymology: Old English butere < a West Germanic borrowing of Latin butyrum < Greek (polytonic, ) boutyron (perhaps literally "cow-cheese", from (polytonic, ) bous "ox, cow" + (polytonic, ) tyros "cheese"). The West Germanic source also gave Dutch boter, German Butter.
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