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butter-and-egg man

butter-and-egg man noun: a prosperous dairy farmer (or other wealthy rural citizen), seen as coming into the big city and ostentatiously living it up.

Noun

butter-and-egg man (plural butter-and-egg men)

  1. (US, dated, slang) A prosperous dairy farmer (or other wealthy rural citizen), seen as coming into the big city and ostentatiously living it up.
    • He puffed on the big cigar that he always had stuck in his face and posed back like a big butter-and-egg man.1946, Milton “Mezz” Mezzrow, Bernard Wolfe, “Them First Kicks are a Killer”, in Really the Blues, New York, N.Y.: Random House, book 2 (1923–1928: Chicago, Chicago), page 69

Forms of butter-and-egg man

pluralbutter-and-egg men

Questions about butter-and-egg man

What does butter-and-egg man mean?
Butter-and-egg man means a prosperous dairy farmer (or other wealthy rural citizen), seen as coming into the big city and ostentatiously living it up.
What part of speech is butter-and-egg man?
Butter-and-egg man is a noun.
What is the plural of butter-and-egg man?
The plural of butter-and-egg man is butter-and-egg men.

Words near butter-and-egg man in the dictionary

  1. butter won't melt in someone's mouth
  2. butter would not melt in someone's mouth
  3. butter wouldn't melt in someone's mouth
  4. butter yellow
  5. butter yellows
  6. butter-and-egg man
  7. butter-and-egg men
  8. butter-and-egg money
  9. butter-and-egger
  10. butter-and-eggers
  11. butter-and-eggs

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