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butterball

[buht-er-bawl]
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noun
  1. Northeastern U.S. the bufflehead.
  2. Informal. a chubby person.
  3. an individual serving of butter shaped into a small sphere.

Origin of butterball

First recorded in 1930–35; butter + ball1
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Related Words for butterball

portly, flabby, chunky, pudgy, stout, plump, bulky, obese, inflated, bulging, hefty, large, big, heavy, meaty, gross, bull, solid, broad, lard

Examples from the Web for butterball

Historical Examples of butterball

  • It was black-and-white-spotted and fat as a butterball, she and the little Bococks bragged.

British Dictionary definitions for butterball

butterball

noun US
  1. another name for bufflehead
  2. informal, derogatory a chubby or fat person
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