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Butterball   /bˈətərbˌɔl/   Listen
noun
Butterball  n.  (Zool.)
1.
The buffel duck.
2.
A fat person or animal. (informal)
3.
A lump of butter rounded into a ball.
4.
A plump chicken or turkey prepared for cooking.





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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


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