BUTTERFAT | • butterfat n. The fatty components of milk and other dairy products. • butter-fat n. Alternative form of butterfat. • butter␣fat n. Alternative form of butterfat. |
BUTTERFATS | • butterfats n. Plural of butterfat. • butter-fats n. Plural of butter-fat (alternative form of butterfats). • butter␣fats n. Plural of butter fat (alternative form of butterfats). |
BUTTERFINGERED | • butterfingered adj. Prone to dropping things; clumsy. • butter-fingered adj. Alternative form of butterfingered. • BUTTERFINGERED adj. apt to let things fall or slip through the fingers. |
BUTTERFINGERS | • butterfingers n. Someone who tends to drop things; (more generally) someone who is clumsy or uncoordinated; a klutz. • butterfingers n. One’s fingers which tend to drop things, or are clumsy or uncoordinated. • butterfingers n. A tendency to drop things, or to be clumsy or uncoordinated. |
BUTTERFISH | • butterfish n. Any of various species of fish having a slippery mucous coating, especially. • butterfish n. (Informal) The sablefish (Anoplopoma fimbria) (the sablefish is not a true butterfish; but is called such informally). • BUTTERFISH n. a name given to several different fishes, in allusion to their slippery coating of mucus. |
BUTTERFISHES | • butterfishes n. Plural of butterfish. • BUTTERFISH n. a name given to several different fishes, in allusion to their slippery coating of mucus. |
BUTTERFLIED | • butterflied v. Simple past tense and past participle of butterfly. • BUTTERFLY v. to split almost entirely and spread apart e.g. a steak. |
BUTTERFLIES | • butterflies n. Plural of butterfly. • butterflies n. (By ellipsis) butterflies in one’s stomach. • butterflies v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of butterfly. |
BUTTERFLY | • butterfly n. A flying insect of the order Lepidoptera, distinguished from moths by their diurnal activity and generally… • butterfly n. (Medicine, attributive) A use of surgical tape, cut into thin strips and placed across an open wound… • butterfly n. (Swimming) The butterfly stroke. |
BUTTERFLYER | • butterflyer n. Alternative form of butterflier. • BUTTERFLYER n. a swimmer who does the butterfly stroke. |
BUTTERFLYERS | • butterflyers n. Plural of butterflyer. • BUTTERFLYER n. a swimmer who does the butterfly stroke. |
BUTTERFLYFISH | • butterflyfish n. Any of a group of conspicuous tropical marine fish of the family Chaetodontidae; the bannerfish and… • butterfly␣fish n. Any fish of the family Chaetodontidae. • butterfly␣fish n. Pantodon buchholzi, a small brown fish of western African streams, often found in aquariums. |
BUTTERFLYFISHES | • butterflyfishes n. Plural of butterflyfish. • butterfly␣fishes n. Plural of butterfly fish. • BUTTERFLYFISH n. any tropical marine percoid fish of the genera Chaetodon, Chelmon, etc., that has a deep flattened brightly coloured or strikingly marked body. |
BUTTERFLYING | • butterflying v. Present participle of butterfly. • BUTTERFLY v. to split almost entirely and spread apart e.g. a steak. |