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noun

Butterball n. (Zool.)

The buffel duck.

A fat person or animal. (informal)

A lump of butter rounded into a ball.

A plump chicken or turkey prepared for cooking.

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Etymology of 'Butterball'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Butterball" Quotes from Famous Books

... just a quarter after nine o'clock, but I knew she would be sleepy and would have to be forced to come with me very gently and slowly. Still, I didn't see how I could go on out into the woods with only Sam and the Butterball which was wheezing out cow conversation to Sam that I was intensely interested in and ought to have been listening to rather than wasting force on foolish proprieties. I was about to turn and take Sam's advice on the matter when he suddenly ...

— Over Paradise Ridge - A Romance • Maria Thompson Daviess

... Ivory-billed woodpecker, butterball, bufflehead. The wood-duck is greatly diminishing every year, and if not completely protected, ten years hence no wood-duck will be found in Louisiana.—(Frank M. Miller, and G.E. Beyer, ...

— Our Vanishing Wild Life - Its Extermination and Preservation • William T. Hornaday

Words linked to "Butterball" : dipper, duck, fatty, fat person, Bucephala, Bucephela albeola, large person, genus Bucephala