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butterball

[ buht-er-bawl ]

noun

  1. Northeastern U.S. the bufflehead.
  2. Informal. a chubby person.
  3. an individual serving of butter shaped into a small sphere.


butterball

/ ˈ²úÊŒ³Ùəˌ²úɔ˱ô /

noun

  1. another name for bufflehead
  2. informal.
    a chubby or fat person
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Origin of butterball1

First recorded in 1930–35; butter + ball 1
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“You were a little butterball when you were a baby. You had these chubby cheeks that I swear I could’ve kissed all day. It only felt right to call you pumpkin.â€

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Now, scientists, park rangers and others are out to catch the wild butterball.

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‘I was kind of a little butterball ... Now I’m string cheese,’ Dolly Parton said after re-creating her 1978 Playboy magazine cover for her husband’s birthday.

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“I was kind of a little butterball in that one. Well, I’m string cheese now, but he’ll probably think I’m cream cheese, I hope,†she said with a wink.

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“I love the state of Iowa,†Mr. Trump said, by way of buttering up the home of the butterballs.

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