English words for 'butterbur'
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- Butter.
- (countable, backgammon) A move in response to being doubled, in which one immediately doubles the stakes again, keeping the doubling cube on one’s own side of the board.
- Alternative letter-case form of Beaver (“member of the youngest wing of the Scout movement”).
- Beaver cloth, a heavy felted woollen cloth, used chiefly for making overcoats.
- Alternative spelling of bevor (“part of a helmet”).
- A brown colour, like that of a beaver.
- (chiefly Canada, US, slang, countable) The pubic hair near a vulva or a vulva itself; (attributively) denoting films or literature featuring nude women.
- (Canada, US) Beaver pelts as an article of exchange or as a standard of value.
- (US, offensive, slang) A woman, especially one who is sexually attractive.
- (countable) A semiaquatic rodent of the genus Castor, having a wide, flat tail and webbed feet, native to the Northern Hemisphere.
- (countable, slang) A beard or a bearded person.
- (countable) A hat, of various shapes, made from a felted beaver fur (or later of silk), fashionable in Europe between 1550 and 1850.
- The fur of the beaver.
- (uncountable, historical, slang) A game, in which points are scored by spotting beards.
- a movable piece of armor on a medieval helmet used to protect the lower face
- the soft brown fur of the beaver
- a hat made with the fur of a beaver (or similar material)
- a full beard
- large semiaquatic rodent with webbed hind feet and a broad flat tail; construct complex dams and underwater lodges
- a man's hat with a tall crown; usually covered with silk or with beaver fur
verb
- To form a felt-like texture, similar to the way beaver fur is used for felt-making.
- (backgammon) After being doubled, to immediately double the stakes again, a move that keeps the doubling cube on one’s own side of the board.
- To work hard.
- (slang) To spot a beard in a game of beaver.
- (logging, slang) To cut a continuous ring around a tree that one is felling.
- work hard on something
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- An implement for sampling butter.
- A sieve or strainer.
- A customs officer responsible for searching ships, merchandise, luggage, etc.
- (historical, medicine) An instrument for feeling after calculi in the bladder, etc.
- (UK, historical) An officer in London appointed to examine the bodies of the dead, and report the cause of death.
- (historical, military) An instrument for examining the bore of a cannon, to detect cavities in its surface.
- (UK, historical) An officer who apprehended idlers on the street during church hours in Scotland.
- One who searches.
- someone making a search or inquiry
- large metallic blue-green beetle that preys on caterpillars; found in North America
- a customs official whose job is to search baggage or goods or vehicles for contraband or dutiable items
verb
- spread butter on
- (transitive) To spread butter on.
- To spin on skis or a snowboard using only the tips or tails being in contact with the snow
- (skiing, snowboarding) To move one's weight backwards or forwards onto the tips or tails of one's skis or snowboard so only the tip or tail is in contact with the snow. Similar to applying butter to bread with the end of a knife.
noun
- a fighter who strikes the opponent with their head
- an edible emulsion of fat globules made by churning milk or cream; for cooking and table use
- (slang, sometimes attributive) Something that is smooth, impressive, or appealing. (Compare smooth as butter.)
- Any of various substances made from other (especially plant-based) oils or fats, used in moisturizers, cosmetics, etc.
- Someone or something that butts.
- A soft, fatty foodstuff made by churning the cream of milk (generally cow's milk).
- (cooking) Any of various foodstuffs made from other foods or oils, similar in consistency to, eaten like or intended as a substitute for butter (preceded by the name of the food used to make it).
- (aviation, slang) A smooth plane landing.
- Someone or something that butts in; a busybody.
adj
- Made with or tasting of butter.
- resembling or containing or spread with butter
- Resembling butter in some way, such as yellow color or smooth texture.
- (computing, video games) Ellipsis of buttery smooth.
- (informal) Marked by insincere flattery; obsequious.
- unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech
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- A vessel used for churning, especially for producing butter.
- (business, uncountable) Customer attrition; the phenomenon or rate of customers leaving a company.
- (telecommunications) The mass of people who are ready to switch carriers.
- A milk churn (container for the transportation of milk).
- (telecommunications) The time when a consumer switches his/her service provider.
- (historical) The last grain cut at harvest; kern.
- Cyclic activity that achieves nothing.
- a vessel in which cream is agitated to separate butterfat from buttermilk
verb
- (intransitive) To move rapidly and repetitively with a rocking motion; to tumble, mix or shake.
- (informal, travel, aviation) To repeatedly cancel and rebook a reservation in order to refresh ticket time limits or other fare rule restrictions.
- (transitive) To agitate rapidly and repetitively, or to stir with a rowing or rocking motion; generally applies to liquids, notably cream.
- (transitive, figuratively) To produce excessive and sometimes undesirable or unproductive activity or motion.
- (US, informal, finance, travel) To continually sign up for new credit cards in order to earn signup bonuses, airline miles, and other benefits.
- (business, of a customer) To stop using a company's product or service.
- (finance) To carry out wash sales in order to make the market appear more active than it really is.
- be agitated
- stir (cream) vigorously in order to make butter
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- Initialism of peanut butter.
- Initialism of parallel bars.
- (US, military, aviation) Initialism of patrol bomber.
- (sports, speedrunning) Initialism of personal best.
- (finance) Initialism of prime broker or prime brokerage.
- (philately) Initialism of plate block.
- a unit of information equal to 1000 terabytes or 10^15 bytes
- a unit of information equal to 1024 tebibytes or 2^50 bytes
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- (intransitive, of milk) To become butter by being churned.
- To move toward the listener.
- To begin (at a certain location); to radiate or stem (from).
- (intransitive) To take a position relative to something else in a sequence.
- (intransitive, often vulgar, slang) To achieve orgasm; to cum; to ejaculate.
- (intransitive, of grain) To germinate.
- To move toward an unstated agent.
- To have been brought up by or employed by.
- (transitive, informal) To pretend to be; to behave in the manner of; to assume the role of.
- (copulative, figuratively) To approach or reach a state of being or accomplishment.
- (intransitive) To happen.
- To move toward the object that is the focus of the sentence.
- (with an infinitive) To begin (to have an opinion or feeling).
- To move toward the speaker.
- (slang) To carry through; to succeed in.
- (figuratively, with to) To take a particular approach or point of view in regard to something.
- (with an infinitive) To do something by chance or unintentionally.
- (intransitive) To be supplied, or made available; to exist.
- To have a certain social background.
- (intransitive) To appear; to manifest itself; to cause a reaction by manifesting.
- To be or have been a resident or native.
- (intransitive) To move nearer to the point of perspective.
- (in subordinate clauses and gerunds) To move toward the agent or subject of the main clause.
- (intransitive) To arrive.
- proceed or get along
- come from; be connected by a relationship of blood, for example
- to be the product or result
- to measure up to in kind or quality
- be found or available
- exist or occur in a certain point in a series
- extend or reach
- cover a certain distance
- come to one's mind; suggest itself
- happen as a result
- have a certain priority
- come under, be classified or included
- move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody
- be received
- come forth
- reach a destination; arrive by movement or progress
- reach or enter a state, relation, condition, use, or position
- come to pass; arrive, as in due course
- add up in number or quantity
- experience orgasm
- be a native of
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- Butter.
- (countable, backgammon) A move in response to being doubled, in which one immediately doubles the stakes again, keeping the doubling cube on one’s own side of the board.
- Alternative letter-case form of Beaver (“member of the youngest wing of the Scout movement”).
- Beaver cloth, a heavy felted woollen cloth, used chiefly for making overcoats.
- Alternative spelling of bevor (“part of a helmet”).
- A brown colour, like that of a beaver.
- (chiefly Canada, US, slang, countable) The pubic hair near a vulva or a vulva itself; (attributively) denoting films or literature featuring nude women.
- (Canada, US) Beaver pelts as an article of exchange or as a standard of value.
- (US, offensive, slang) A woman, especially one who is sexually attractive.
- (countable) A semiaquatic rodent of the genus Castor, having a wide, flat tail and webbed feet, native to the Northern Hemisphere.
- (countable, slang) A beard or a bearded person.
- (countable) A hat, of various shapes, made from a felted beaver fur (or later of silk), fashionable in Europe between 1550 and 1850.
- The fur of the beaver.
- (uncountable, historical, slang) A game, in which points are scored by spotting beards.
- a movable piece of armor on a medieval helmet used to protect the lower face
- the soft brown fur of the beaver
- a hat made with the fur of a beaver (or similar material)
- a full beard
- large semiaquatic rodent with webbed hind feet and a broad flat tail; construct complex dams and underwater lodges
- a man's hat with a tall crown; usually covered with silk or with beaver fur
verb
- To form a felt-like texture, similar to the way beaver fur is used for felt-making.
- (backgammon) After being doubled, to immediately double the stakes again, a move that keeps the doubling cube on one’s own side of the board.
- To work hard.
- (slang) To spot a beard in a game of beaver.
- (logging, slang) To cut a continuous ring around a tree that one is felling.
- work hard on something
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- An implement for sampling butter.
- A sieve or strainer.
- A customs officer responsible for searching ships, merchandise, luggage, etc.
- (historical, medicine) An instrument for feeling after calculi in the bladder, etc.
- (UK, historical) An officer in London appointed to examine the bodies of the dead, and report the cause of death.
- (historical, military) An instrument for examining the bore of a cannon, to detect cavities in its surface.
- (UK, historical) An officer who apprehended idlers on the street during church hours in Scotland.
- One who searches.
- someone making a search or inquiry
- large metallic blue-green beetle that preys on caterpillars; found in North America
- a customs official whose job is to search baggage or goods or vehicles for contraband or dutiable items
noun
- A vessel used for churning, especially for producing butter.
- (business, uncountable) Customer attrition; the phenomenon or rate of customers leaving a company.
- (telecommunications) The mass of people who are ready to switch carriers.
- A milk churn (container for the transportation of milk).
- (telecommunications) The time when a consumer switches his/her service provider.
- (historical) The last grain cut at harvest; kern.
- Cyclic activity that achieves nothing.
- a vessel in which cream is agitated to separate butterfat from buttermilk
verb
- (intransitive) To move rapidly and repetitively with a rocking motion; to tumble, mix or shake.
- (informal, travel, aviation) To repeatedly cancel and rebook a reservation in order to refresh ticket time limits or other fare rule restrictions.
- (transitive) To agitate rapidly and repetitively, or to stir with a rowing or rocking motion; generally applies to liquids, notably cream.
- (transitive, figuratively) To produce excessive and sometimes undesirable or unproductive activity or motion.
- (US, informal, finance, travel) To continually sign up for new credit cards in order to earn signup bonuses, airline miles, and other benefits.
- (business, of a customer) To stop using a company's product or service.
- (finance) To carry out wash sales in order to make the market appear more active than it really is.
- be agitated
- stir (cream) vigorously in order to make butter
noun
noun
- Initialism of peanut butter.
- Initialism of parallel bars.
- (US, military, aviation) Initialism of patrol bomber.
- (sports, speedrunning) Initialism of personal best.
- (finance) Initialism of prime broker or prime brokerage.
- (philately) Initialism of plate block.
- a unit of information equal to 1000 terabytes or 10^15 bytes
- a unit of information equal to 1024 tebibytes or 2^50 bytes
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verb
- spread butter on
- (transitive) To spread butter on.
- To spin on skis or a snowboard using only the tips or tails being in contact with the snow
- (skiing, snowboarding) To move one's weight backwards or forwards onto the tips or tails of one's skis or snowboard so only the tip or tail is in contact with the snow. Similar to applying butter to bread with the end of a knife.
noun
- a fighter who strikes the opponent with their head
- an edible emulsion of fat globules made by churning milk or cream; for cooking and table use
- (slang, sometimes attributive) Something that is smooth, impressive, or appealing. (Compare smooth as butter.)
- Any of various substances made from other (especially plant-based) oils or fats, used in moisturizers, cosmetics, etc.
- Someone or something that butts.
- A soft, fatty foodstuff made by churning the cream of milk (generally cow's milk).
- (cooking) Any of various foodstuffs made from other foods or oils, similar in consistency to, eaten like or intended as a substitute for butter (preceded by the name of the food used to make it).
- (aviation, slang) A smooth plane landing.
- Someone or something that butts in; a busybody.
verb
- (intransitive, of milk) To become butter by being churned.
- To move toward the listener.
- To begin (at a certain location); to radiate or stem (from).
- (intransitive) To take a position relative to something else in a sequence.
- (intransitive, often vulgar, slang) To achieve orgasm; to cum; to ejaculate.
- (intransitive, of grain) To germinate.
- To move toward an unstated agent.
- To have been brought up by or employed by.
- (transitive, informal) To pretend to be; to behave in the manner of; to assume the role of.
- (copulative, figuratively) To approach or reach a state of being or accomplishment.
- (intransitive) To happen.
- To move toward the object that is the focus of the sentence.
- (with an infinitive) To begin (to have an opinion or feeling).
- To move toward the speaker.
- (slang) To carry through; to succeed in.
- (figuratively, with to) To take a particular approach or point of view in regard to something.
- (with an infinitive) To do something by chance or unintentionally.
- (intransitive) To be supplied, or made available; to exist.
- To have a certain social background.
- (intransitive) To appear; to manifest itself; to cause a reaction by manifesting.
- To be or have been a resident or native.
- (intransitive) To move nearer to the point of perspective.
- (in subordinate clauses and gerunds) To move toward the agent or subject of the main clause.
- (intransitive) To arrive.
- proceed or get along
- come from; be connected by a relationship of blood, for example
- to be the product or result
- to measure up to in kind or quality
- be found or available
- exist or occur in a certain point in a series
- extend or reach
- cover a certain distance
- come to one's mind; suggest itself
- happen as a result
- have a certain priority
- come under, be classified or included
- move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody
- be received
- come forth
- reach a destination; arrive by movement or progress
- reach or enter a state, relation, condition, use, or position
- come to pass; arrive, as in due course
- add up in number or quantity
- experience orgasm
- be a native of
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adj
- Made with or tasting of butter.
- resembling or containing or spread with butter
- Resembling butter in some way, such as yellow color or smooth texture.
- (computing, video games) Ellipsis of buttery smooth.
- (informal) Marked by insincere flattery; obsequious.
- unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech