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butter-and-egg men

butter-and-egg men is the plural of butter-and-egg man.

Meaning of butter-and-egg man

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

Questions about butter-and-egg men

What is butter-and-egg men the plural of?
Butter-and-egg men is the plural of butter-and-egg man.

Words near butter-and-egg men in the dictionary

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

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