Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Derogatory A chubby or fat person.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
buffle , 2.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) The buffel duck.
- noun informal a fat person or animal.
- noun a lump of butter rounded into a ball.
- noun a plump chicken or turkey prepared for cooking.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A round lump of a coagulated fat used in cooking such as
butter ,margarine , or aspread - noun derogatory An
overweight person. - noun A small
North American duck .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a rotund individual
- noun small North American diving duck; males have bushy head plumage
Etymologies
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Examples
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Thick top-round cuts are often called butterball steak or London broil, whereas thin cuts are referred to simply as top round steak.
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Let the experts take over and call the butterball turkey hotline at 1-800-BUTTERBALL (available from 6am to 6pm, central standard time, on Thanksgiving day).
RVABlogs 2008
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Let the experts take over and call the butterball turkey hotline at 1-800-BUTTERBALL (available from 6am to 6pm, central standard time, on Thanksgiving day).
RVABlogs 2008
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I stop myself, though, knowing that all that sugar is just going to turn me into a bummed out butterball.
Susan Harrow: Get a Body Like Jennifer Aniston? Susan Harrow 2012
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I stop myself, though, knowing that all that sugar is just going to turn me into a bummed out butterball.
Susan Harrow: Get a Body Like Jennifer Aniston? Susan Harrow 2012
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I stop myself, though, knowing that all that sugar is just going to turn me into a bummed out butterball.
Susan Harrow: Get a Body Like Jennifer Aniston? Susan Harrow 2012
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I stop myself, though, knowing that all that sugar is just going to turn me into a bummed out butterball.
Susan Harrow: Get a Body Like Jennifer Aniston? Susan Harrow 2012
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“And when the little butterball came out to dance, the queen just up and left,” Teddy clucked.
Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011
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I stop myself, though, knowing that all that sugar is just going to turn me into a bummed out butterball.
Susan Harrow: Get a Body Like Jennifer Aniston? Susan Harrow 2012
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I stop myself, though, knowing that all that sugar is just going to turn me into a bummed out butterball.
Susan Harrow: Get a Body Like Jennifer Aniston? Susan Harrow 2012
reesetee commented on the word butterball
Obsolete name for the Bufflehead, a diving duck.
December 7, 2007