butter

butter
n.

1) to churn; cream; make butter

2) to spread butter (on bread)

3) apple (AE); cocoa; peanut; prune; salted; sweet; whipped butter

4) fresh; rancid butter

5) a pat; stick of butter

6) in butter (to fry in butter)

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['bʌtə]
cocoa
make butter
peanut
prune
rancid butter
salted
stick of butter
whipped butter
a pat
to churn
apple (AE)
to spread (on bread)
in butter (to fry in butter)

Combinatory dictionary. 2013.

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