butters
Syllables: but·tersUK/ˈbʌt.əz/US/ˈbʌ.tɚz/
butters is the plural of butter.
butters is the third-person singular simple present indicative of butter.
Meaning of butter
Noun
butter (usually uncountable, plural butters)
- A soft, fatty foodstuff made by churning the cream of milk (generally cow's milk).
- Any of various foodstuffs made from other foods or oils, similar in consistency to, eaten like or intended as a substitute for butter (preceded by the name of the food used to make it).
- peanut butter
- Any of various substances made from other (especially plant-based) oils or fats, used in moisturizers, cosmetics, etc.
- Butters such as cocoa, illippe, kokum, mango, murumuru, sal (shorea) and shea occur naturally and are obtained directly from the plant.2016 September 7, Elaine Stavert, Beauty Oils & Butter, GMC PUBLICATIONS LTD, →ISBN
- Any specific soft substance.
- butter of antimony; butter of arsenic
- Something that is smooth, impressive, or appealing. (Compare smooth as butter.)
- That “Confessions” into “Nice and Slow” transition [at the Super Bowl LVIII halftime show] was buttah !2024 February 12, @OluBliss, X (post)
- A smooth plane landing.
- That landing was total butter!
Adjective
butters (not comparable)
- Ugly.
Proper noun (1) capitalized: Butters
Butters (countable and uncountable, plural Butterses)
- A surname from Norman.
- A census-designated place in Bladen County, North Carolina, United States.
- Butters Stotch, a fictional character from the animated sitcom South Park.
Proper noun (2) capitalized: Butters
Butters
- plural of Butter
Forms of butters
| plural | Butterses |
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Origin of butters
Originally a clipping of butterface (“a person with an attractive body but an unattractive face”) + -s (hypocoristic suffix).
A variant of Butter, or alternatively an occupational surname for a worker in a wine cellar, from Norman boterie (“wine cellar”) + genitive -s.
Phrases with butters
- butters up
- butters out
- egg butters
- nut butters
- pea butters
- rum butters
- back butters
- body butters
- butters down
- head butters
- herb butters
- nose butters
32 more phrasesFewer phrases
- shea butters
- apple butters
- black butters
- cacao butters
- cocoa butters
- green butters
- honey butters
- maple butters
- plant butters
- sweet butters
- almond butters
- cookie butters
- garlic butters
- peanut butters
- process butters
- tanning butters
- truffle butters
- whipped butters
- witch's butters
- butters the cony
- compound butters
- witches' butters
- clarified butters
- renovated butters
- vegetable butters
- butters someone's biscuit
- whatever butters your bread
- whatever butters your toast
- whatever butters your muffin
- whatever butters your biscuit
- whatever butters your biscuits
- butters one's bread on both sides
Questions about butters
- What does butters mean?
- Butters means ugly.
- What is butters the plural of?
- Butters is the plural of butter.
- What part of speech is butters?
- Butters can be an adjective or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce butters?
- Butters is pronounced /ˈbʌt.əz/ (UK).
Words near butters in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: butters (page history and authors); Butters (page history and authors); butter (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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