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BUTTERBALL
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Dictionary entry overview: What does butterball mean?
• BUTTERBALL (noun)
The noun BUTTERBALL has 2 senses:
1. a rotund individual
2. small North American diving duck; males have bushy head plumage
Familiarity information: BUTTERBALL used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A rotund individual
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
butterball; fat person; fatso; fatty; roly-poly
Hypernyms ("butterball" is a kind of...):
large person (a person of greater than average size)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Small North American diving duck; males have bushy head plumage
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
Bucephela albeola; bufflehead; butterball; dipper
Hypernyms ("butterball" is a kind of...):
duck (small wild or domesticated web-footed broad-billed swimming bird usually having a depressed body and short legs)
Holonyms ("butterball" is a member of...):
Bucephala; genus Bucephala (buffleheads and goldeneyes)
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