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Definition of Buttering
1. butter [v] - See also: butter
Literary usage of Buttering
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Fosteriana, Consisting of Thoughts, Reflections, and Criticisms, of John Foster by John Foster, Henry George Bohn (1858)
"... an agreeable meal is sometimes made on that of ostriches. buttering THE SKIN.
" The natives of Timbuctoo are a stout, healthy race, ..."
2. Lectures on Life and Health, Or, The Laws and Means of Physical Culture by William Andrus Alcott (1853)
"In short, all our unnatural customs in regard to eating—our bolting, heating,
buttering, peppering; sipping hot or cold drinks, &c. ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1823)
"Devil a book comes out without some dirty buttering in it, either of you, ...
Witness D'Israeli buttering Gifford—Lord John Rüssel buttering Tom Campbell. ..."
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