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butterboxes

butterboxes is the plural of butterbox.

Meaning of butterbox

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.

Questions about butterboxes

What is butterboxes the plural of?
Butterboxes is the plural of butterbox.

Words near butterboxes in the dictionary

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

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