BUTTER KNIFE Definition & Meaning

butter knife

noun

a small knife with a dull blade, for cutting, serving, or spreading butter.

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Origin of butter knife¹

First recorded in 1840–50

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Everything from butter knives to headache medicine was locked up.

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“The best weeding tool is a butter knife,” Rojas says confidentially.

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Cool muffins on a rack for 5 minutes, then use a thin offset spatula or butter knife to extract each from its cup.

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Burns’s prose pours out in dense, heavily referential paragraphs you may need more than a butter knife to cut through, and the forward engine of plot feels more like a suggestion than a fact.

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The butter knife has been separated from the butter dish.

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