butter
/ˈbʌtɚ/ verb C2- To spread butter on. · Butter the toast.
- 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. Similar to applying butter to bread with the end of a knife.
- To spin on skis or a snowboard using only the tips or tails being in contact with the snow
He/she/it butters · Past buttered · Past participle buttered · -ing form buttering
Verb forms
- Base form
- butter
- He/she/it
- butters
- Past
- buttered
- Past participle
- buttered
- -ing form
- buttering
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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Well, sit down, and let us begin with these pilchards, and this fresh butter; which I have put on some vine-leaves to please you, wicked one.
“I’m a poor man, your Majesty,” the Hatter began, in a trembling voice, “—and I hadn’t begun my tea—not above a week or so—and what with the bread-and-butter getting so thin—and the twinkling of the tea—”
“After that,” continued the Hatter, “I cut some more bread-and-butter—”
The miserable Hatter dropped his teacup and bread-and-butter, and went down on one knee.
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