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school-butter

school-butter interjection: a taunt used in the American South to call schoolboys out of school to fight.

Interjection

  1. (obsolete) A taunt used in the American South to call schoolboys out of school to fight.
    • On Tuesday morning before the homicide Aaron C. Shelton passed the school-house in which the school was then in session, hallooed school-butter, and passed on to his work without any disturbance […]1878, Virginia. General Assembly. Senate, Journal of the Senate of Virginia, page 31

Questions about school-butter

What does school-butter mean?
School-butter means a taunt used in the American South to call schoolboys out of school to fight.
What part of speech is school-butter?
School-butter is an interjection.

Words near school-butter in the dictionary

  1. school zone
  2. school zones
  3. school-age
  4. school-aged
  5. school-ages
  6. school-butter
  7. school-cap
  8. school-dinner ladies
  9. school-dinner lady
  10. school-goer
  11. school-goers

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