Plural of butter
regular plural
The plural of butter is butters.
Forms of butter
| Singular | butter /ˈbʌtəɹ/ |
|---|---|
| Plural | butters /ˈbʌt.əz/ |
| Countable | usually uncountable |
Butters in a sentence
- I can’t figure why you’d want to paint the cabinets, but whatever butters your biscuit.2021, Jaime Berry, “Never to Suffer”, in Hope Springs, New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, published 2022, →ISBN. From the entry whatever butters your biscuit
- You have a right to complain on your Facebook page about whatever butters your biscuit.2017 September 24, Kelly Kazek, “Offended by cotton? Please don’t take my biscuits and gravy”, in The Huntsville Times, volume 108, number…. From the entry whatever butters your biscuit
- These peanut butters can be made, in seconds, right before your eyes, sans additives.2014, Lauren Talbot, Clear Skin Detox: A Revolutionary Diet to Heal Your Skin from the Inside Out, Ulysses Press, →ISBN. From the entry peanut butters
- Honey dills, bread n' butters, sweet and sours, gherkins, mustard pickles and relishes: everything's here.2011 July 20, Thom Rock, Blueberry Fool: Memory, Moments, and Meaning, Wipf and Stock Publishers, →ISBN. From the entry sweet-and-sour
- Whatever butters your biscuits just suits me right down to the ground, mister.”2008, Tabor Evans [pseudonym], chapter 2, in Longarm in Devils River (Longarm; 361), New York, N.Y.: Jove Books, →ISBN, page 21. From the entry whatever butters your biscuits
Meaning of butter
- noun A soft, fatty foodstuff made by churning the cream of milk (generally cow's milk).
- noun 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).
- noun Any of various substances made from other (especially plant-based) oils or fats, used in moisturizers, cosmetics, etc.
Questions about the plural of butter
- What is the plural of butter?
- The plural of butter is butters.
- Is butter countable?
- Butter is usually an uncountable noun; its plural is used for kinds or examples of it.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: butter (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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