Read full poem →Some play, some eat, some cack against the wall,
And as they crouchen low, for bread and butter call.
Dictionary Entry
A soft, fatty foodstuff made by churning the cream of milk (generally cow's milk).
Origin
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Common Phrases
. butter1 butterfat butterbutter peanutbutter meltedbutter tablespoonsbutter unsalted
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Poetry examples for “butter”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Next churned butter, whipped up cream,
Fed their poultry, sat and sewed ;
Read full poem →Like a woman in a dream,
She forgets she borrowed butter
And pays you back cream!
Read full poem →Like a woman in a dream,
She forgets she borrowed butter
And pays you back cream!
Read full poem →Dropping petals under the trees,
Taking your mind off your bread and butter.
Read full poem →Farewell to the bushy clump close to the river
And the flags where the butter-bump hides in for ever;
Farewell to the weedy nook, hemmed in by waters;
Read full poem →And a drawing the corks of train-oil-flasks,
And a breaking the hoops of butter-casks:
And it seemed as if a voice
Read full poem →Ye wad na ben sae donsie, O.
I’ve seen the day ye butter’d my brose,
And cuddl’d me late and early, O;
Read full poem →My favourite dishes are full of butter and cheese and sour cream.
In New York we had so many free luncheons with people on the
Read full poem →light that might have been evening and might have been dawn I
contemplated the clear amber liquid. Pads of butter floated on the
surface and a faint chickeny aroma fumed up to my nostrils.