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bullbutter

bullbutter is the alternative form of bull butter.

Meaning of bull butter

Noun

bull butter (uncountable)

  1. (dated, derogatory) margarine
    • About one-third of this importation was margarine, which in America was called "bull butter."1892, R. Henry Rew, “An inquiry into the statistics of the production and consumption of milk in Great Britain.”, in Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, volume 55, page 285
  2. (euphemistic, slang, literal or figurative) bullshit
    • (for you city folks, bull butter is that black, smelly substance found in piles all over cow pastures) but in your case, the bull butter ain't on the outside.2014, Ken English, More COMMON Sense, page 86

Questions about bullbutter

What is bullbutter the alternative form of?
Bullbutter is the alternative form of bull butter.

Words near bullbutter in the dictionary

  1. bullberries
  2. bullberry
  3. bullbleep
  4. bullboat
  5. bullboats
  6. bullbutter
  7. bullcook
  8. bullcooks
  9. bullcorn
  10. bullcrap
  11. bullcrapped

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