Butterball
Northeastern U.S. the bufflehead.
Informal. a chubby person.
an individual serving of butter shaped into a small sphere.
Historical Examples
Blue Ridge Country Jean Thomas
noun (US)
another name for bufflehead
(informal, derogatory) a chubby or fat person
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- Butter-bean
a variety of small-seeded lima bean, Phaseolus lunatus, grown in the southern U.S. Midland and Southern U.S. any type of lima bean. noun a variety of lima bean that has large pale flat edible seeds and is grown in the southern US
- Butterbread
bread spread with butter.
- Butter-brickle
an ice-cream flavor, usually vanilla or butterscotch, containing crunchy bits of butterscotch candy.
- Butter-clam
a large edible clam, Saxidomus nuttalli, of the west coast of North America.
- Butter-cookie
Cookery. a plain cookie whose chief ingredients are butter, flour, and sugar.