butterball
butterball noun: a round lump of a coagulated fat used in cooking such as butter or margarine.
Noun
butterball (plural butterballs)
- A round lump of a coagulated fat used in cooking such as butter or margarine.
- An overweight person.
- What if your baby is a butterball? Does Fat-Proofing mean you should put your infant on diet?.1988, Vicki Lansky, Fat-Proofing your Children – so that they Never Become Diet-Addicted Adults, page 62
- A small North American duck, the bufflehead, Bucephala albeola.
- The skipper had his eye on a bunch of butterballs feeding not far from the boat. In fact there were ducks all around — though he did not tell me so.1917, Hunter-Trader-Trapper, volume 34, page 37
Forms of butterball
| plural | butterballs |
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Origin of butterball
From butter + ball.
Questions about butterball
- What does butterball mean?
- Butterball means a round lump of a coagulated fat used in cooking such as butter or margarine.
- What part of speech is butterball?
- Butterball is a noun.
- What is the plural of butterball?
- The plural of butterball is butterballs.
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