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- US Pronunciation
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- [buht-er-bawl]
- /ˈbʌt ərˌbɔl/
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- US Pronunciation
- US IPA
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- [buht-er-bawl]
- /ˈbʌt ərˌbɔl/
Definitions of butterball word
- noun butterball a chubby or fat person 3
- abbreviation BUTTERBALL bufflehead 3
- noun butterball a fat person 3
- noun butterball Northeastern U.S. the bufflehead. 1
- noun butterball Informal. a chubby person. 1
- noun butterball an individual serving of butter shaped into a small sphere. 1
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Origin of butterball
First appearance:
before 1930 One of the 10% newest English words
First recorded in 1930-35; butter + ball1
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Parts of speech for Butterball
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
butterball popularity
A pretty common term. Usually people know it’s meaning, but prefer to use a more spread out synonym. About 44% of English native speakers know the meaning and use word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
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This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for butterball
adj butterball
- portly — rather heavy or fat; stout; corpulent.
- flabby — hanging loosely or limply, as flesh or muscles; flaccid.
- chunky — A chunky person is broad and heavy.
- pudgy — short and fat or thick: an infant's pudgy fingers.
- stout — bulky in figure; heavily built; corpulent; thickset; fat: She is getting too stout for her dresses. Synonyms: big, rotund, stocky, portly, fleshy. Antonyms: thin, lean, slender, slim; skinny, scrawny.
Antonyms for butterball
adj butterball
- skinny — very lean or thin; emaciated: a skinny little kitten.
- lean — to incline or bend from a vertical position: She leaned out the window.
- thin — having relatively little extent from one surface or side to the opposite; not thick: thin ice.
- slim — slender, as in girth or form; slight in build or structure.
- miniature — a representation or image of something on a small or reduced scale.
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