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 a spread
  • 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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butter +‎ ball

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  • Obsolete name for the Bufflehead, a diving duck.

    December 7, 2007