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butter 1, noun (oh)



butter, egg, flour, sugar
[Language: Old English; Origin: butere, from Latin butyrum, from Greek boutyron, from bous 'cow' + tyros 'cheese']
a solid yellow food made from milk or cream that you spread on bread or use in cooking
-see also bread-and-butter
butter wouldn't melt in sb's mouth
used to say that someone seems to be very kind and sincere but is not really
-- buttery adj