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butterball
[buht-er-bawl]
noun
Northeastern U.S.the bufflehead.
Informal.a chubby person.
an individual serving of butter shaped into a small sphere.
butterball
/ ˈʌəˌɔː /
noun
another name for bufflehead
informala chubby or fat person
Word History and Origins
Origin of butterball1
Example Sentences
“You were a little butterball when you were a baby. You had these chubby cheeks that I swear I could’ve kissed all day. It only felt right to call you pumpkin.”
Now, scientists, park rangers and others are out to catch the wild butterball.
‘I was kind of a little butterball ... Now I’m string cheese,’ Dolly Parton said after re-creating her 1978 Playboy magazine cover for her husband’s birthday.
“I was kind of a little butterball in that one. Well, I’m string cheese now, but he’ll probably think I’m cream cheese, I hope,” she said with a wink.
“I love the state of Iowa,” Mr. Trump said, by way of buttering up the home of the butterballs.
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