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overbutter

overbutter verb: to butter excessively.

Verb

overbutter (third-person singular simple present overbutters, present participle overbuttering, simple past and past participle overbuttered)

  1. To butter excessively.
    • It had not occurred to him that they might want more than the touching and the stroking and the kissing and the fucking: that it was in women to arouse and lavish and spoil in other ways besides overbuttering sandwiches.1991 May, Gwen Davis, chapter 15, in Jade: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Warner Books, →ISBN, page 198
    • “Spinoza is a Sephardic name, but I’m mostly Ashkenazi,” said Joshua, nervously overbuttering his bread.2006, Y[oun-Kee] Euny Hong, “Sunday Brunch”, in Kept: A Comedy of Sex and Manners, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 112

Forms of overbutter

third-person singular presentoverbutters
present participleoverbuttering
past participleoverbuttered
pastoverbuttered

Origin of overbutter

From over- + butter.

Questions about overbutter

What does overbutter mean?
Overbutter means to butter excessively.
What part of speech is overbutter?
Overbutter is a verb.
What is the past tense of overbutter?
The past tense of overbutter is overbuttered.

Words near overbutter in the dictionary

  1. overbusies
  2. overbusily
  3. overbust
  4. overbusy
  5. overbusying
  6. overbutter
  7. overbuttered
  8. overbuttering
  9. overbutters
  10. overbuy
  11. overbuying

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