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butterbox

butterbox noun: a wooden box in which butter is contained.

Noun

butterbox (plural butterboxes)

  1. A wooden box in which butter is contained.
    • A twelve-by-fourteen canvas would not pin in his box, so he had to make a stretcher for it, and very neatly he made it, out of strips of butter-box.1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 48
  2. (US, regional) The bufflehead duck.

Forms of butterbox

pluralbutterboxes

Questions about butterbox

What does butterbox mean?
Butterbox means a wooden box in which butter is contained.
What part of speech is butterbox?
Butterbox is a noun.
What is the plural of butterbox?
The plural of butterbox is butterboxes.

Words near butterbox in the dictionary

  1. butterbirds
  2. butterboat
  3. butterboats
  4. butterbodies
  5. butterbody
  6. butterbox
  7. butterboxes
  8. butterbread
  9. butterbrot
  10. butterbrots
  11. butterbump

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