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buttering someone's biscuit

buttering someone's biscuit is the present participle and gerund of butter someone's biscuit.

Meaning of butter someone's biscuit

Verb

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

  1. (slang) To interest or appeal to someone; to make someone happy.

Questions about buttering someone's biscuit

What is buttering someone's biscuit the present participle and gerund of?
Buttering someone's biscuit is the present participle and gerund of butter someone's biscuit.

Words near buttering someone's biscuit in the dictionary

  1. butteriness
  2. buttering
  3. buttering down
  4. buttering one's bread on both sides
  5. buttering out
  6. buttering someone's biscuit
  7. buttering the cony
  8. buttering up
  9. butterings
  10. butterinski
  11. butterinskies

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