Crossword clues for butter
butter
- Stick in the fridge
- It may be cultured
- Popcorn topping
- Hollandaise sauce ingredient
- Churner's creation
- Kind of fingers
- Creamery product
- Pound cake ingredient
- Popcorn enhancer
- Oleo alternative
- Hollan-daise ingredient
- Container for table
- Wild flower, less cold and flatter
- Flatter boys' leader, say, on winning
- See 45-Across
- Flatter, with "up"
- Bread spread
- Oddballs undress under cover of bed spread
- Spread in book, say
- Yellow food, or black, say
- British state's contribution to continental breakfast?
- Head striker’s spread
- He's not troubled with tumult in a little margarine spread
- Dairy spread
- Dairy product from goat?
- Dairy product
- Stick on the table
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Butter \But"ter\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Buttered (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Buttering.]
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To cover or spread with butter.
I know what's what. I know on which side My bread is buttered.
--Ford. To increase, as stakes, at every throw or every game. [Cant]
--Johnson.
Butter \But"ter\ (b[u^]t"t[~e]r), n. [OE. botere, butter, AS. butere, fr. L. butyrum, Gr. boy`turon; either fr. boy`s ox, cow + turo`s cheese; or, perhaps, of Scythian origin. Cf. Cow.]
An oily, unctuous substance obtained from cream or milk by churning.
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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.
Butter boat, a small vessel for holding melted butter at table.
Butter flower, the buttercup, a yellow flower.
Butter print, a piece of carved wood used to mark pats of butter; -- called also butter stamp.
--Locke.Butter tooth, either of the two middle incisors of the upper jaw.
Butter tree (Bot.), a tree of the genus Bassia, the seeds of which yield a substance closely resembling butter. The butter tree of India is the Bassia butyracea; that of Africa is the Shea tree ( Bassia Parkii). See Shea tree.
Butter trier, a tool used in sampling butter.
Butter wife, a woman who makes or sells butter; -- called also butter woman. [Obs. or Archaic]
Butter \Butt"er\, n. One who, or that which, butts.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English butere "butter," general West Germanic (compare Old Frisian, Old High German butera, German Butter, Dutch boter), an early loan-word from Latin butyrum "butter" (source of Italian burro, Old French burre, French beurre), from Greek boutyron, perhaps literally "cow-cheese," from bous "ox, cow" (see cow (n.)) + tyros "cheese" (see tyrosine); but this might be a folk etymology of a Scythian word.\n
\nThe product was used from an early date in India, Iran and northern Europe, but not in ancient Greece and Rome. Herodotus described it (along with cannabis) among the oddities of the Scythians. Butter-knife attested from 1818.
Old English buterian "spread butter on," from the same source as butter (n.). Figurative meaning "to flatter lavishly" is by 1798 (with up (adv.), in Connelly's Spanish-English dictionary, p.413). Related: Buttered; buttering.\n
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 (context uncountable English) A soft, fatty foodstuff made by churning the cream of milk (generally cow's milk). 2 (context countable obsolete chemistry English) Any specific soft substance. 3 (context uncountable English) 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''). vb. 1 (context transitive English) To spread butter on. 2 to move one's weight backwards or forwards onto the tips or tails of one's skis or snowboard so only the tip or tail is in contact with the snow. 3 (context slang obsolete transitive English) To increase (stakes) at every throw of dice, or every game. Etymology 2
n. Someone who butts; someone who butt in
WordNet
v. spread butter on; "butter bread"
n. an edible emulsion of fat globules made by churning milk or cream; for cooking and table use
a fighter who strikes the opponent with his head
Gazetteer
Wikipedia
Butter is a solid dairy product made by churning fresh or fermented cream or milk, to separate the butterfat from the buttermilk. It is generally used as a spread on plain or toasted bread products and a condiment on cooked vegetables, as well as in cooking, such as baking, sauce making, and pan frying. Butter consists of butterfat, milk proteins and water.
Most frequently made from cows' milk, butter can also be manufactured from the milk of other mammals, including sheep, goats, buffalo, and yaks. Salt such as dairy salt, flavorings and preservatives are sometimes added to butter. Rendering butter produces clarified butter or ghee, which is almost entirely butterfat.
Butter is a water-in-oil emulsion resulting from an inversion of the cream; in a water-in-oil emulsion, the milk proteins are the emulsifiers. Butter remains a solid when refrigerated, but softens to a spreadable consistency at room temperature, and melts to a thin liquid consistency at 32–35 °C (90–95 °F). The density of butter is 911 g/L (0.950 lbs per US pint).
It generally has a pale yellow color, but varies from deep yellow to nearly white. Its unmodified color is dependent on the animals' feed and is commonly manipulated with food colorings in the commercial manufacturing process, most commonly annatto or carotene.
Butter is a dairy product made by churning fresh or fermented cream or milk.
Butter may also refer to:
Butter is a 2011 comedy film directed by Jim Field Smith, from a screenplay by Jason Micallef, starring Yara Shahidi, Jennifer Garner, Ty Burrell, Olivia Wilde, Rob Corddry, Ashley Greene, Alicia Silverstone, and Hugh Jackman. It was released on October 5, 2012 in the United States and Canada by The Weinstein Company. The film is said to be a satire of the 2008 Democratic presidential primary. Butter received mixed reviews from critics who questioned Smith's direction of the film's script in terms of humor and satire and the performances from the ensemble cast.
Butter (known as Never 2 Big in the United States) is a 1998 action film starring Ernie Hudson, Nia Long, Tony Todd and Donnie Wahlberg. It originally premiered on HBO as an HBO Original Film. It was later released to video by Artisan Entertainment as Never 2 Big in 1998 and on DVD in 2001.
The film follows corrupt record company executives who kill a singing sensation with a lethal injection rather than letting her leave their label and join another company. They then frame her foster brother for the murder forcing him to go on the run and to try to get the goods on the real killers.
Butter is the first studio album by Scottish electronic musician Hudson Mohawke. It was released on Warp Records on October 26, 2009.
Butter is the surname of the following people
- Anton Julius Butter (1920–1989), Dutch economist
- G. Butter (1888–?), Belgian Olympic weightlifter
- John Butter (1791–1877), English ophthalmic surgeon
- Michel Butter (born 1985), Dutch runner
- Nathaniel Butter (died 1664), London publisher
- Wes Butters (born 1979), British radio broadcaster
Usage examples of "butter".
The FDA permits so much aflatoxin in food that the peanut butter in your sandwich can be seventy-five times more hazardous than a liter of contaminated Silicon Valley water, the amount you would drink in a day if they would only let you.
In the kitchen they found some grapes, a box of crackers, and a jar of apple butter, as well as a bottle of water that the Squalors used for making aqueous martinis but that the Baudelaires would use to quench their thirst during their long climb.
A soft moan flowed from somewhere deep inside her, a secret place that was like sun-warmed butter, slick and aqueous, swelling sweetly until she was filled with its fluid warmth.
To prepare Jerusalem artichokes for boiling pare and slice thin into cold water to prevent turning dark, boil in salted water, season and serve with drawn butter or a good sauce.
Add a half cupful of meat stock, thicken with a little flour and butter, and boil three minutes, squeeze a little lemon juice into it, add a sprinkling of parsley and a dash of pepper, pour over the artichokes and serve.
Make a sauce of the butter, flour, salt, paprica, and water in which the asparagus was cooked, or use half a cup of cream in the place of part of the asparagus liquor.
When the eggs are nicely poached, remove the eggs, with the asparagus below, on to rounds of toasted and buttered bread.
Make a bechamel sauce, after the usual manner, of the butter, flour, seasonings, cream and stock.
Place in a stewpan with one cup of hot bechamel sauce, one-half breakfast-cupful of cream and about one-quarter of an ounce of butter.
Mad Binny was cooking up a love potion, either that or a batch of pollen butter.
Rice, Currants, Sugar, Prunes, Cynamon, Ginger, Pepper, Cloves, Green Ginger, Oil, Butter, Holland cheese or old Cheese, Wine-Vinegar, Canarie-Sack, Aqua-vitae, the best Wines, the best Waters, the juyce of Limons for the scurvy, white Bisket, Oatmeal, Gammons of Bacons, dried Neats tongues, Beef packed up in Vineger, Legs of Mutton minced and stewed, and close packed up, with tried Sewet or Butter in earthen Pots.
Beefe and Porke, Fish, Butter, Cheese, Pease, Pottage, Water-Gruel, Bisket, and six shilling Bear.
Wines, the best Waters, the juyce of Limons for the scurvy, white Bisket, Oatmeal, Gammons of Bacons, dried Neats tongues, Beef packed up in Vineger, Legs of Mutton minced and stewed, and close packed up, with tried Sewet or Butter in earthen Pots.
Shelter in there started in to bitching about what was this shit, peanut butter sandwiches for fucking supper.
The kippers had of course been brought from home, but the perfectly fresh eggs, butter, cream and veal cutlets were from the island of Brazza itself and the new sack of true Mocha from a friendly Turkish ship encountered off the Bocche di Cattaro.