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buttering

buttering is the present participle and gerund of butter.

Noun

buttering (countable and uncountable, plural butterings)

  1. The application of butter (n.) to something.
    • It is interesting that the sentences that Davidson uses in his arguments for events are all about genuine flesh and blood events: butterings of toast, explosions of boilers, raisings of arms, kickings of Shem and Sean and the like.1986, R. Barcan Marcus, G. J. W. Dorn, P. Weingartner, Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science VII
  2. The action of a rider having to butter in an acrobatic maneuver.
  3. The action of turning with only the tips (tail or nose) of skis or snowboards

Meaning of butter

Verb

butter (third-person singular simple present butters, present participle buttering, simple past and past participle buttered)

  1. (transitive) To spread butter on.
    • Butter the toast.
  2. To move one's weight backwards or forwards onto the tips or tails of one's skis or snowboard so only the tip or tail is in contact with the snow. Similar to applying butter to bread with the end of a knife.
    1. To spin on skis or a snowboard using only the tips or tails being in contact with the snow
  3. (obsolete, slang, transitive) To increase (stakes) at every throw of dice, or every game.

See all 13 meanings of butter

Forms of buttering

pluralbutterings

Phrases with buttering

Questions about buttering

What does buttering mean?
Buttering means the application of butter (n.) to something.
What is buttering the present participle and gerund of?
Buttering is the present participle and gerund of butter.
What part of speech is buttering?
Buttering is a noun.
What is the plural of buttering?
The plural of buttering is butterings.

Words near buttering in the dictionary

  1. butteries
  2. butteriest
  3. butterine
  4. butterines
  5. butteriness
  6. buttering
  7. buttering down
  8. buttering one's bread on both sides
  9. buttering out
  10. buttering someone's biscuit
  11. buttering the cony

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