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
From the library
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 told you butter wouldn’t suit the works!” he added looking angrily at the March Hare.
“It was the _best_ butter,” the March Hare meekly replied.
The March Hare took the watch and looked at it gloomily: then he dipped it into his cup of tea, and looked at it again: but he could think of nothing better to say than his first remark, “It was the _best_ butter, you know.”
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