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butterless

butterless adjective: without butter.

Adjective

butterless (not comparable)

  1. Without butter.
    • The punishments for negligence were varied and made as far as possible to suit the case of the delinquent, a butterless, gravyless or syrupless breakfast being the usual consequence of failure to be up in time.1899 July 13, Mrs. A[lexander] J[effrey] M’Kelway [i.e., Lavinia Rutherford McKelway], “Children as Church Members. […]”, in A. J. McKelway, editor, Presbyterian Standard, volume XLI, number 27...

Origin of butterless

From butter + -less.

Words formed from butterless

Questions about butterless

What does butterless mean?
Butterless means without butter.
What part of speech is butterless?
Butterless is an adjective.

Words near butterless in the dictionary

  1. butterish
  2. butterknife
  3. butterknives
  4. Butterknowle
  5. butterleaf
  6. butterless
  7. butterlessness
  8. Butterley
  9. butterlike
  10. buttermaker
  11. buttermakers

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