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butterballs

butterballs is the plural of butterball.

Meaning of butterball

Noun

butterball (plural butterballs)

  1. A round lump of a coagulated fat used in cooking such as butter or margarine.
  2. (derogatory, humorous, slang) 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
  3. 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

Questions about butterballs

What is butterballs the plural of?
Butterballs is the plural of butterball.

Words near butterballs in the dictionary

  1. butter-woman
  2. butter-women
  3. butterable
  4. butteraceous
  5. butterball
  6. butterballs
  7. butterbar
  8. butterbars
  9. butterbean
  10. butterbeans
  11. butterbird

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