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butter-box

butter-box noun: a Dutch person; used in the era of the Anglo-Dutch Wars.

Noun

butter-box (plural butter-boxes)

  1. (UK, archaic, derogatory, slang) A Dutch person; used in the era of the Anglo-Dutch Wars.

butter-box meaning in Tamil

butter-box in Tamil

வெண்ணெய்ப் பெட்டி, ஆலந்துநாட்டினுக்கு வழங்கிய கேலிப்பெயர்

Forms of butter-box

pluralbutter-boxes

Origin of butter-box

The idiom may have derived from the flag of Holland, which at the time had an orange stripe on top.

Questions about butter-box

What does butter-box mean?
Butter-box means a Dutch person; used in the era of the Anglo-Dutch Wars.
What is butter-box in Tamil?
Butter-box in Tamil is வெண்ணெய்ப் பெட்டி, ஆலந்துநாட்டினுக்கு வழங்கிய கேலிப்பெயர். See Butter-box meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is butter-box?
Butter-box is a noun.
What is the plural of butter-box?
The plural of butter-box is butter-boxes.

Words near butter-box in the dictionary

  1. butter-and-egg men
  2. butter-and-egg money
  3. butter-and-egger
  4. butter-and-eggers
  5. butter-and-eggs
  6. butter-box
  7. butter-boxes
  8. butter-fat
  9. butter-fats
  10. butter-fingered
  11. butter-flower

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Adapted from Wiktionary: butter-box (page history and authors); butter-box (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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