butter

A soft, fatty foodstuff made by churning the cream of milk (generally cow's milk).

Any of various foodstuffs made from other foods or oils, similar in consistency to, eaten like or intended as a substitute for butter (preceded by the name of the food used to make it).

peanut butter

soy butter

Any of various substances made from other (especially plant-based) oils or fats, used in moisturizers, cosmetics, etc.

Butters such as cocoa, illippe, kokum, mango, murumuru, sal (shorea) and shea occur naturally and are obtained directly from the plant.

Butters are triglycerides […]. Cocoa butter (Theobroma cacao) is used as an emollient in topical cosmetic formulations, […] South American and the Brazilian rainforest offer various plants with common butters used in the industry that include […] cupuaçu butter […] and murumuru butter from the murumuru palm tree (Astrocaryum murumuru). India is another source of many butters used in cosmetic products, including kokum butter extracted from the seeds of the Garcinia indica tree, mango butter from the Mangifera indica tree and shea butter[…]

Any specific soft substance.

butter of antimony; butter of arsenic

Something that is smooth, impressive, or appealing. (Compare smooth as butter.)

That “Confessions” into “Nice and Slow” transition [at the Super Bowl LVIII halftime show] was buttah !

To spread butter on.

Butter the toast.

To move one's weight backwards or forwards onto the tips or tails of one's skis or snowboard so only the tip or tail is in contact with the snow. Similar to applying butter to bread with the end of a knife.

To move one's weight backwards or forwards onto the tips or tails of one's skis or snowboard so only the tip or tail is in contact with the snow. Similar to applying butter to bread with the end of a knife.

To increase (stakes) at every throw of dice, or every game.

Someone or something that butts.

[…] these animals lacked self-correcting mechanisms of the kind seen in modern head-butters such as goats and big-horn sheep that would have kept the tremendous forces aligned with the rest of the skeleton.

Someone or something that butts in; a busybody.