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butterhead

butterhead noun: butterhead lettuce.

Noun

butterhead (plural butterheads)

  1. Butterhead lettuce.
  2. (US, ethnic, offensive, slur) A person of East Asian descent.
    • Yeah, if one of my sisters ever brought home a fuckin' butterhead, you know what my old man would do?

Forms of butterhead

pluralbutterheads

Origin of butterhead

From butter + head.

Phrases with butterhead

Questions about butterhead

What does butterhead mean?
Butterhead means butterhead lettuce.
What part of speech is butterhead?
Butterhead is a noun.
What is the plural of butterhead?
The plural of butterhead is butterheads.

Words near butterhead in the dictionary

  1. butterflyfish
  2. butterflyfishes
  3. butterflying
  4. butterflylike
  5. butterflyweed
  6. butterhead
  7. butterhead lettuce
  8. butterhead lettuces
  9. butterheads
  10. butterhorn
  11. butterhorns

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