Noun Would you like some butter for your potato? Sauté the onions in melted butter. Verbbutter a piece of bread
Recent Examples on the Web
Noun
Turn off the heat, add the butter and another splash of pasta water. Christa Sgobba, SELF, 9 Sep. 2022 In a large skillet, melt the butter over medium heat. Mackensy Lunsford, USA TODAY, 5 Sep. 2022 Here’s to corn, the delightful wonder; just don’t forget to add butter!Sunset Magazine, 26 Aug. 2022 The information was hidden inside a peanut butter sandwich, an adhesive-bandage wrapper and a package of Dentyne gum, authorities said. Paul Duggan, Washington Post, 16 Aug. 2022 The former Navy engineer stored the data on SD cards in a peanut butter sandwich, a gum wrapper and a Band-Aid, prosecutors said. Joseph De Avila, WSJ, 16 Aug. 2022 In a large skillet over medium heat, melt the 1 tablespoon butter. Sally Pasley Vargas, BostonGlobe.com, 7 June 2022 Melt the butter in a pan and sauté the shallots over low heat. Foren Clark, Cnn. Recipe From Alice Caporicci, CNN, 15 May 2022 In a 12-inch cast-iron skillet, melt the butter over medium heat. Dahlia Ghabour, The Courier-Journal, 26 Apr. 2022
Verb
And then of course, there is charring’s milder but equally important cousin, browning a technique Hingham applies liberally to butter in her sweets. Lauren Joseph, Bon Appétit, 27 July 2022 Line the bottom with a round of parchment paper and butter the paper. Sheryl Julian, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Mar. 2022 From a nutritional standpoint, this menu addition doesn’t exactly butter Yawitz’s biscuit. Perri O. Blumberg, Men's Health, 22 Feb. 2022 After a little coaxing from Blake, who is trying to butter Ariana up in hopes of winning over her legions of fans, Hailey joins Team Ariana. Maggie Fremont, EW.com, 28 Sep. 2021 Top with the remaining bread slices; butter the side facing out. Christina Tkacik, baltimoresun.com, 9 Sep. 2021 Rough spots of pavement make their way through the steering wheel with soft thumps, enough to communicate a sense of the road but nothing that would turn your cream to butter on the way home from the grocery store. Elana Scherr, Car and Driver, 1 Sep. 2021 Shape the dough: Lightly oil or butter the inside surfaces of a 9-by-13-inch baking pan or Detroit pizza pan. Tribune News Service, cleveland, 30 Aug. 2021 Generously butter a 3-quart baking dish that is at least 2 inches deep. Tribune News Service, cleveland, 23 Aug. 2021 See More
Word History
Etymology
Noun
Middle English, from Old English butere, from Latin butyrum, from Greek boutyron, from bous cow + tyros cheese; akin to Avestan tūiri- curds — more at cow
First Known Use
Noun
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1