butterball

[ buht-er-bawl ]

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noun

Northeastern U.S. the bufflehead.
Informal. a chubby person.

an individual serving of butter shaped into a small sphere.

Origin of butterball

First recorded in 1930–35; butter + ball¹

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How to use butterball in a sentence

The butterball shape, she says, helps conserve necessary moisture by keeping the ratio of surface area to volume low.
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It was black-and-white-spotted and fat as a butterball, she and the little Bococks bragged.
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British Dictionary definitions for butterball

butterball

/ (ˈbʌtəˌbɔːl) /

nounUS

another name for bufflehead
informal, derogatory a chubby or fat person

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