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butter-boxes

butter-boxes is the plural of butter-box.

Meaning of butter-box

Noun

butter-box (plural butter-boxes)

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

Questions about butter-boxes

What is butter-boxes the plural of?
Butter-boxes is the plural of butter-box.

Words near butter-boxes in the dictionary

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

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