BUTTER
ADJECTIVES
► BLAKE yellow, of a golden colour, generally applied to butter and cheese, etc. → 1747 Eng. dial.
NOUNS
► AXLE GREASE butter or margarine → 1883 Amer. sl., esp. military usage
► BALD-HEADED BUTTER a portion of butter in which there are no hairs (used during the pre-industrial era of butter manufacture) → L19 sl.
► CALCUTTA butter → 1998 UK rhyming sl.
► CART-GREASE bad butter → 1875 sl.
► CHUCK ME IN THE GUTTER butter → 2002 Aust. rhyming sl.
► CLARRY ► CLARY dressings for bread, as butter, jam, honey, jelly, etc. → 1936 Amer. dial.
► COW-GREASE butter → 1892 Chinese Pidgin (Bk.)
► COW-OIL butter → 1892 Chinese Pidgin (Bk.)
► COW PASTE butter → 1936 Amer. dial.
► COW SALVE butter → 1945 Amer. dial.
► DANNY RUCKER butter → 1930 rhyming sl.
► DAN TUCKER butter → 1859 rhyming sl.
► DRAG butter → 1915 World War I Amer. sl.
► FEATLET four pounds of butter → 1851 Eng. dial.
► GREASE butter; usually inferior or rancid butter → 1788 Eng. dial.
► HARD OIL butter → 1915 World War I Amer. sl.
► JOHNNY RUTTER butter → 1930 rhyming sl.
► LARD butter or margarine → 1942 Amer. jocular usage
► LAY ME IN THE GUTTER butter → 1923 rhyming sl.
► LUBRICANT butter → 1934 students’ sl. (Bk.)
► MUTTER AND STUTTER butter → 1960 rhyming sl.
► OINTMENT butter → 1860 sl.
► PIN-GREASE butter → L19 sl.
► PLASTER butter → L19 sl.
► POOL BUTTER the unbranded butter available as a ration in Britain during the Second World War (1939-1945) → 1940
► PULL DOWN THE SHUTTER butter → L19 rhyming sl.
► PULL butter → 1915 World War I Amer. sl.
► QUART three pounds of butter → 1796 Eng. dial.
► SALVE butter → L19 US tramps’ sl.
► SKID GREASE butter → 1921 Amer. dial., chiefly logging usage
► SMEAR butter → 1891 Amer. dial.
► SPREAD butter → 1812 sl.
► SPREADER butter → 1610 obs.
► VASELINE butter or margarine → 1910 Aust. & US sl.
NOUNS, PERSON
► BUTTER BADGER an itinerant trader who buys butter from farmers to sell wholesale → 1739 orig. Eng. dial.
► BUTTER FACTOR a tradesman who buys butter from farmers to sell wholesale → 1696
► BUTTER-QUEAN a woman who makes or sells butter, characterized as garrulous, argumentative, and bad-tempered → 1613 obs., derogatory
► BUTTER WHORE a woman who makes or sells butter, characterized as garrulous, argumentative, and bad-tempered → 1592 obs.
► BUTTER WIFE a woman who makes or sells butter → 1542
► BUTTER WOMAN a woman who makes or sells butter → 1612
VERBS
► LAGGER of butter, etc.: to spread thickly → 1950 Sc.
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