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2. Verb. (third-person singular of butter) ¹

3. Adjective. (British slang) Unattractive, ugly or repulsive. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Butters

1. butter [v] - See also: butter

Literary usage of Butters

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Journal of the American Chemical Societyby American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1902)
""Starch as an Adulterant or Drier in Butter, and a Study of Glucose in butters." By GE Patrick and D. Stuart: 1i) The paper describes first a canned butter ..."

2. Transactions of the International Engineering Congress, 1915 (1916)
"DISCUSSION Mr. Mr. Chas butters/ Mem. Am. Inst. ME, stated that he had recently butters, investigated the possibility of substituting steel balls for the ..."

3. Wilmington Records of Births, Marriages and Deaths, from 1730 to 1898 by Wilmington (Mass. : Town), James Edward Kelley (1898)
"Zachariah butters and Polly Carter, both of Wilmington, Nov. 25, 1789. ... Simeon butters of Wilmington and Mary Twist of Burlington, Oct. 22, 1800. ..."

4. The New England Farmer by Samuel W. Cole (1852)
"Mr. Simeon butters, a grandson of William butters, the man that "planted the tree," is now 72 years old, and can remember-when his grandfather died ..."

5. The Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science (1893)
"ANALYSIS OF THE butters OF COMMERCE. By C. VIOLETTE. THE method which I employ comprises two series of operations ; in the former the butters are classified ..."

6. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1908)
"butters and his staff". This filter is a great improvement over the ... The economy of construction of the butters filter-plant is clearly shown in Figs. ..."

7. Recent Cyanide Practice by T A Rickard (1907)
"THE MOORE AND butters FILTERS The Editor: January 12, 1907) Sir—The article by Mr. Nutter on the Moore filter in your issue of December 15 is both ..."

8. Historic Homes and Places and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to by William Richard Cutter (1908)
"The Baldwin apple originated on the old butters homestead in Wilmington. It was first known as the butters apple, then as the Pecker or woodpecker apple and ..."

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