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butterings

butterings is the plural of buttering.

Meaning of buttering

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

Questions about butterings

What is butterings the plural of?
Butterings is the plural of buttering.

Words near butterings in the dictionary

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

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