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back-buttering

back-buttering is the present participle and gerund of back-butter.

Meaning of back-butter

Verb

back-butter (third-person singular simple present back-butters, present participle back-buttering, simple past and past participle back-buttered)

  1. (transitive) To apply adhesive to the back of (a tile) before placing it on the substrate.

Questions about back-buttering

What is back-buttering the present participle and gerund of?
Back-buttering is the present participle and gerund of back-butter.

Words near back-buttering in the dictionary

  1. back-burners
  2. back-burns
  3. back-butt
  4. back-butter
  5. back-buttered
  6. back-buttering
  7. back-butters
  8. back-butts
  9. back-channel
  10. back-channeled
  11. back-channeling

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Adapted from Wiktionary: back-buttering (page history and authors); back-butter (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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