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fairy butter

fairy butter noun: a food made from butter and egg yolks mixed with sugar and orange flower water.

Noun

fairy butter (uncountable)

  1. A food made from butter and egg yolks mixed with sugar and orange flower water.
  2. (UK, dialectal) Certain gelatinous fungi, the tremellas.
    • "A woman," he says, "who had been in their society challenged one of the guests whom she espied in the market selling fairy-butter."1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 309
    Synonyms:
    fairies' butter

Synonyms of fairy butter

Questions about fairy butter

What does fairy butter mean?
Fairy butter means a food made from butter and egg yolks mixed with sugar and orange flower water.
What part of speech is fairy butter?
Fairy butter is a noun.

Words near fairy butter in the dictionary

  1. fairy barrows
  2. fairy bluebird
  3. fairy bluebirds
  4. fairy book
  5. fairy bread
  6. fairy butter
  7. fairy cake
  8. fairy cakes
  9. fairy castle cacti
  10. fairy castle cactus
  11. fairy chess

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