Battering vs Buttering - What's the difference?
battering | buttering |
A heavy beating
A large defeat
*{{quote-news, year=2012
, date=September 7
, author=Dominic Fifield
, title=England start World Cup campaign with five-goal romp against Moldova
, work=The Guardian
The application of butter to something.
* 1986 , R. Barcan Marcus, G. J. W. Dorn, P. Weingartner, Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science VII
As verbs the difference between battering and buttering
is that battering is present participle of lang=en while buttering is present participle of butter.As nouns the difference between battering and buttering
is that battering is a heavy beating while buttering is the application of butter to something.battering
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(en noun)citation, page= , passage=That will prove a trickier test, the management having pinpointed Oleh Blokhin's side as "one of the favourites in the group", though they will confront an England team buoyed by this battering .}}
buttering
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(en noun)- It is interesting that the sentences that Davidson uses in his arguments for events are all about genuine flesh and blood events: butterings of toast, explosions of boilers, raisings of arms, kickings of Shem and Sean and the like.