Definition of Butter

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Butter

An oily, unctuous substance obtained from cream or milk by churning.

Any substance resembling butter in degree of consistence, or other qualities, especially, in old chemistry, the chlorides, as butter of antimony, sesquichloride of antimony; also, certain concrete fat oils remaining nearly solid at ordinary temperatures, as butter of cacao, vegetable butter, shea butter.

To cover or spread with butter.

To increase, as stakes, at every throw or every game.

One who, or that which, butts.

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Butter Quotations

Look at the average American diet: ice cream, butter, cheese, whole milk, all this fat. People don't realize how much of this stuff you get by the end of the day. High blood pressure is from all this high-fat eating.
Jack LaLanne

Do you know how many calories are in butter and cheese and ice cream? Would you get your dog up in the morning for a cup of coffee and a donut?
Jack LaLanne

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
Charles M. Schulz

If you don't mind smelling like peanut butter for two or three days, peanut butter is darn good shaving cream.
Barry Goldwater

If you can't control your peanut butter, you can't expect to control your life.
Bill Watterson

I've hung out in the writer's room a few times, but the fact is we've got such a good writing staff, I don't want to get my peanut butter fingerprints on anything.
Patton Oswalt

Would you rather have butter or guns? Preparedness makes us powerful. Butter merely makes us fat.
Hermann Goering

Guns will make us powerful; butter will only make us fat.
Hermann Goering

Man cannot live by bread alone; he must have peanut butter.
James A. Garfield

There's nothing better than good sex. But bad sex? A peanut butter and jelly sandwich is better than bad sex.
Billy Joel

Butter Translations

butter in Afrikaans is botter
butter in Dutch is boter
butter in Finnish is voi
butter in French is beurre
butter in German is Butter, Butter, mit Butter bestreichen
butter in Italian is burro
butter in Portuguese is manteiga
butter in Spanish is manteca, mantequilla

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