Definitions for butter

butter but·ter

Spelling: [buht-er]
IPA: /ˈbʌt ər/

Butter is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 69 anagrams from letters in butter (berttu).

Definitions for butter

noun

  1. the fatty portion of milk, separating as a soft whitish or yellowish solid when milk or cream is agitated or churned.
  2. this substance, processed for cooking and table use.
  3. any of various other soft spreads for bread:
  4. any of various substances of butterlike consistency, as various metallic chlorides, and certain vegetable oils solid at ordinary temperatures.

Verb phrases

  1. butter up, Informal. to flatter someone in order to gain a favor:

verb (used with object)

  1. to put butter on or in; spread or grease with butter.
  2. to apply a liquefied bonding material to (a piece or area), as mortar to a course of bricks.
  3. Metalworking. to cover (edges to be welded together) with a preliminary surface of the weld metal.

Origin of butter

before 1000; Middle English; Old English butere Latin būtȳrum Greek boútȳron

Examples for butter

Roll in the white of egg and then in flour and sauté in butter.

She tried to talk to Mr. Brailsford when he handed her the tea and bread and butter.

“butter has always been a healthy part of the diet in almost every culture; butter is a traditional food,” Asprey says.

While the beans are cooling and drying, melt the butter in a saute pan over medium heat.

In the bowl of an electric mixer, cream the butter and brown sugar until light and fluffy.

Add the milk, butter, salt, and pepper and return the clams.

Add chocolate and butter to the bowl and melt, stirring to combine.

Add the butter, and when it has melted remove from the heat.

Of what value are milk, cream, and butter in the making of candy?

Now, his new book “The Bulletproof Diet,” claims to offer a weight loss solution that lets you have your butter, and eat it too.

Word Value for butter
Scrable

8

Words with friends

10

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