| Webster's Online Dictionary |
| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Adjective | 1. Being oiled. [Eve - graph theoretic] 2. Being sugared or honeyed.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb | 1. Of Butter.[Websters]. | |
| Verb Past Tense | 1. Past tense conjugation of the verb butter.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (butter) |
1. Spread butter on; "butter bread".[Wordnet]. 2. To cover or spread with butter.[Websters]. 3. To increase, as stakes, at every throw or every game.[Websters]. 4. Base verb from the following inflections: buttering, buttered, butters, butterer, butterers, butteringly and butteredly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. |
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Date "Buttered" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1518. (references) |
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Hot buttered rum | Hot buttered rum is a cocktail or toddy. (references) | ||
| Hot Buttered Soul | Hot Buttered Soul was Isaac Hayes' second studio album, released in 1969 and was a landmark in soul music. (references) | ||
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| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Buttered Ale | Literature | A beverage made of ale or beer (without hops) mixed with butter, sugar, and cinnamon. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | |
| Buttered bun | Slang in 1811 | BUTTERED BUN. One lying with a woman that has just lain with another man, is said to have a buttered bun. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. | |
| Knows which Side his Bread is Buttered | Literature | (He). He is alive to his own interest. In Latin, "Scit uti foro. " Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | |
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Topics by Level of Interest: BUTTERED | ||||
| Topics sorted by level of Interest | Level (1=low, 600=high) | Topics sorted Alphabetically | Level (1=low, 600=high) | |
| Hot Buttered Rum | 10 | Buttered cat paradox | 9 | |
| Hot Buttered Soul | 10 | Hot Buttered Rum | 10 | |
| Buttered cat paradox | 9 | Hot Buttered Rum (band) | 8 | |
| Hot Buttered Rum (band) | 8 | Hot Buttered Soul | 10 | |
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Source: the editor, created by/for EVE to gauge likely levels of human interest in linguistically triggered topics (compiled across various sources, such as Wikipedia and specialty expression glosses). | ||||
| Language | Translations (or nearest inflections or synonyms, in parentheses) | |||
| Al Arabiya | دارَى (adulate, adulated, adulates, adulating, adulation), زُبْدَة (butter, choice, gist, quintessence, buttered), زُبْد (butter, buttered, buttering, Butters, fat), داجَنَ (butter, buttered, buttering, Butters), داجَى (adulate, adulated, adulates, adulating, blarney), تَمَلَّقَ (adulate, adulation, butter, cajole, coax). Additional references: Al Arabiya, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, buttered. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Al Fus-Ha | دارَى (adulate, adulated, adulates, adulating, adulation), زُبْدَة (butter, choice, gist, quintessence, buttered), زُبْد (butter, buttered, buttering, Butters, fat), داجَنَ (butter, buttered, buttering, Butters), داجَى (adulate, adulated, adulates, adulating, blarney), تَمَلَّقَ (adulate, adulation, butter, cajole, coax). Additional references: Al Fus-Ha, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, buttered. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Arabic | دارَى (adulate, adulated, adulates, adulating, adulation), زُبْدَة (butter, choice, gist, quintessence, buttered), زُبْد (butter, buttered, buttering, Butters, fat), داجَنَ (butter, buttered, buttering, Butters), داجَى (adulate, adulated, adulates, adulating, blarney), تَمَلَّقَ (adulate, adulation, butter, cajole, coax). Additional references: Arabic, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, buttered. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Bahasa Indonesia | bermentega (buttered). Additional references: Bahasa Indonesia, Indonesia, Java, buttered. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Bohemian | namazan maslacem (buttered), s máslem (buttered), máslový (buttery, butter, buttered). Additional references: Bohemian, Czech Republic, buttered. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Brazilian Portuguese | buttered (buttered). Additional references: Brazilian Portuguese, Portugal, Angola, buttered. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Cestina | namazan maslacem (buttered), s máslem (buttered), máslový (buttery, butter, buttered). Additional references: Cestina, Czech Republic, buttered. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Croatian | namazan maslacem (buttered). Additional references: Croatian, Croatia, buttered. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Czech | namazan maslacem (buttered), s máslem (buttered), máslový (buttery, butter, buttered). Additional references: Czech, Czech Republic, buttered. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Français | beurré (buttered, dead drunk, plastered). Additional references: Français, France, Algeria, buttered. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| French | beurré (buttered, dead drunk, plastered). Additional references: French, France, Algeria, buttered. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Hanguk Mal | 버터를 바른 (buttered, buttery). Additional references: Hanguk Mal, Korea, South, Korea, buttered. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Hanguohua | 버터를 바른 (buttered, buttery). Additional references: Hanguohua, Korea, South, Korea, buttered. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| High Arabic | دارَى (adulate, adulated, adulates, adulating, adulation), زُبْدَة (butter, choice, gist, quintessence, buttered), زُبْد (butter, buttered, buttering, Butters, fat), داجَنَ (butter, buttered, buttering, Butters), داجَى (adulate, adulated, adulates, adulating, blarney), تَمَلَّقَ (adulate, adulation, butter, cajole, coax). Additional references: High Arabic, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, buttered. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Indonesian | bermentega (buttered). Additional references: Indonesian, Indonesia, Java, buttered. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Korean | 버터를 바른 (buttered, buttery). Additional references: Korean, Korea, South, Korea, buttered. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Portuguese | buttered (buttered). Additional references: Portuguese, Portugal, Angola, buttered. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Turkish | kendi çıkarına bakmak (know on which side one's bread is buttered, look after number one, look out for number one). Additional references: Turkish, Turkey, Bulgaria, buttered. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Source: Eve, based on a combination of meta analysis and graph theory (for near and back translations). | Top | |||
| Language | Translations for “buttered” or closest synonym(s); back translations in parentheses. | |||
| Pig Latin | utteredbay (buttered). Additional references: Pig Latin, buttered. (volunteer) | |||
| Terran B | buttered (buttered). Additional references: Terran B, buttered. (volunteer) | |||
| Source: compiled by the editor. | Top | |||
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