All English words - page 771

Meanings of Butt-in:

phrasal verb

Break into a conversation

Meanings of Butt-out:

phrasal verb

Stop interfering.

Usage examples:

Just butt out and leave us to live our lives

Meanings of Buttal:

noun

A territorial limit; a boundary. also: a boundary marker. now rare (english regional (somerset and lincolnshire regional) in later use).

Meanings of Butte:

noun

An isolated hill with steep sides and a flat top (similar to but narrower than a mesa).

Usage examples:

Located in southeastern utah, canyonlands encompasses high mesas and buttes, burnt red sandstone pi…

Meanings of Butted:

verb

(of a person or animal) hit (someone or something) with the head or horns.

Usage examples:

She butted him in the chest

noun

A push or blow, especially one given with the head.

Usage examples:

The characters can fight hand to hand using punches, kicks, nudges, butts, combos…

Meanings of Butter:

noun

A pale yellow edible fatty substance made by churning cream and used as a spread or in cooking.

Usage examples:

They are served hot or cold spread with butter or margarine and sometimes jelly jam and cream.

verb

Spread (something) with butter.

Usage examples:

Lily buttered a slice of toast

Meanings of Butter dish:

noun

A small dish for holding butter at the table

Meanings of Butter up:

phrasal verb

Flatter with the intention of getting something

Meanings of Butter wouldn’t melt in (someone’s):

idiom

Used when someone looks as if they would never do anything wrong, although you feel they might

Usage examples:

Tommy looked as if butter wouldn't melt in his mouth.

Meanings of Butter-someone-up:

phrasal verb

To please someone, esp. by praising that person in order to get him or her to agree to something

Usage examples:

A company wishing to influence the government must butter up both parties in the house and the sena…

Meanings of Butterball:

noun

A plump bird, especially a turkey or bufflehead.

Usage examples:

Butterballs don't need basting

Meanings of Butterbox:

noun

A dutchman.

Meanings of Butterbump:

noun

The eurasian bittern, botaurus stellaris.

Meanings of Butterbur:

noun

A eurasian waterside plant of the daisy family, the rounded flower heads of which are produced before the leaves. the large, soft leaves were formerly used to wrap butter, and extracts are used medicinally as an anticonvulsant.

Usage examples:

Other than that, we ate wild mountain burdocks, butterburs, bracken, flowering ferns and the sesame…

Meanings of Butterbush:

noun

The buttonbush, cephalanthus occidentalis.

Meanings of Buttercup:

noun

A herbaceous plant with bright yellow cup-shaped flowers, which is common in grassland and as a garden weed. all kinds are poisonous and generally avoided by livestock.

Usage examples:

Some rivals of the purple lilac included the buttercup, goldenrod, mayflower, wood lily, purple ast…

Meanings of Buttercups:

noun

A herbaceous plant with bright yellow cup-shaped flowers, which is common in grassland and as a garden weed. all kinds are poisonous and generally avoided by livestock.

Usage examples:

Some rivals of the purple lilac included the buttercup, goldenrod, mayflower, wood lily, purple ast…

Meanings of Buttered:

adjective

Spread with butter.

Usage examples:

Lavishly buttered bread

verb

Spread (something) with butter.

Usage examples:

Lily buttered a slice of toast

Meanings of Butterfat:

noun

The natural fat contained in milk and dairy products.

Usage examples:

All are made without the dairy derivatives lactose, butterfat, milk, whey and casein.

Meanings of Butterfingers:

noun

A person who regularly drops or fails to keep hold of things.

Usage examples:

What chance have we got with him in goal ? old butterfingers

Meanings of Butterfish:

noun

Any of a number of fishes with oily flesh or slippery skin.

Usage examples:

Ballan wrasse, dragonets, scorpionfish, butterfish and topknots (common and norwegian) all occur fr…

Meanings of Butterfishes:

noun

Any of a number of fishes with oily flesh or slippery skin.

Usage examples:

Ballan wrasse, dragonets, scorpionfish, butterfish and topknots (common and norwegian) all occur fr…

Meanings of Butterflied:

adjective

(of a piece of meat or fish) split almost in two and spread out flat.

Usage examples:

Butterflied shrimp

verb

Split (a piece of meat or fish) almost in two and spread it out flat.

Usage examples:

Butterfly the shrimp using a small sharp knife

Meanings of Butterflies:

noun

A nectar-feeding insect with two pairs of large, typically brightly coloured wings that are covered with microscopic scales. butterflies are distinguished from moths by having clubbed or dilated antennae, holding their wings erect when at rest, and being active by day.

Usage examples:

The peaks are also a stronghold for the striking green hairstreak butterfly and the emperor moth, w…

verb

Split (a piece of meat or fish) almost in two and spread it out flat.

Usage examples:

Butterfly the shrimp using a small sharp knife

adjective

(of a piece of food) cut along the middle and opened up into a wide, flat shape

Usage examples:

Platters of butterfly shrimp are served with lemon wedges., pound the butterfly chop with a meat ma…

Meanings of Butterflower:

noun

A buttercup, especially one of the genus ranunculus.