butterball

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butterball

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From butter + ball.

noun butterballs

A round lump of a coagulated fat used in cooking such as butter or margarine.
derogatory, humorous, slang An overweight person. What if your baby is a butterball? Does Fat-Proofing mean you should put your infant on diet?.
A small North American duck, the bufflehead, Bucephala albeola. The skipper had his eye on a bunch of butterballs feeding not far from the boat. In fact there were ducks all around — though he did not tell me so.

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@misc{butterball_2026,
  title = {butterball},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/butterball},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}