Butter vs Buster - What's the difference?
butter | buster |
(uncountable) A soft, fatty foodstuff made by churning the cream of milk (generally cow's milk).
(countable, obsolete, chemistry) Any specific soft substance.
(uncountable) Any of various foodstuffs made from other foods or oils, similar in consistency to, eaten like or intended as a substitute for butter (preceded by the name of the food used to make it ).
To spread butter on.
to move one's weight backwards or forwards onto the tips or tails of one's skis or snowboard so only the tip or tail is in contact with the snow.
(slang, obsolete, transitive) To increase (stakes) at every throw of dice, or every game.
Someone who or something that bursts, breaks, or destroys a specified thing.
* 1614 , S. Jerome, Moses his Sight of Canaan , 147:
* 2005 , J. Madhavan, Sita & Forest Bandits , 122:
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#* 1940 September 2, Life , 29/1:
#* 1958 February 10, Life , 70:
Someone who or something that 'breaks', tames, or overpowers a specified person or thing.
# A bronco-buster.
#* 1891 July, Harper's Magazine , 208/2
# (Forming compounds denoting an agent or agency tasked with reducing or eliminating the first element).
#* 1920 , F. A. McKenzie, ‘Pussyfoot’ Johnson , v. 83:
#* 1974''' July 4, ''New Scientist , 65/2:
#* 1984 November 18, N.Y. Times , iv. 24/2:
Someone]] or something remarkable, especially for being loud, large, [[etc..
* 1833 April, Parthenon , 293:
* 2004 November 20, South Wales Echo , 9:
# : guy, dude, fella, mack, buddy, loser. (Originally as 'old buster' .)
#* 1838 March 24, New Yorker , 4/1:
#* 1919 , , ''(My Man Jeeves), 79:
#* 2001 , S. MacKay, Fall Guy , ix. 113:
A loaf of bread.
* 1835 September 16, Morning Post , 4/2:
* 1904 June 8, Journal of the Department of Labour (New Zealand), 536:
A drinking spree, a binge.
* 1848 , John Russell Bartlett, Dictionary of Americanisms :
* 1922 , (James Joyce), , 405:
a southerly buster.
* 1848 , John Russell Bartlett, Dictionary of Americanisms
* 1886 , Frank Cowan, Australia , 14:
* 1991 , J. Moore, By Way of Wind , 121:
a staged fall, a pratfall.
* 1874 April, Baily's Monthly Magazine , 114:
A molting crab.
*1855 October 18, Henry A. Wise, letter in J.P. Hambleton's Biographical Sketch of Henry A. Wise (1856), 448:
* 2002 January 6, N.Y. Times , v. 4/6:
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As nouns the difference between butter and buster
is that butter is a soft, fatty foodstuff made by churning the cream of milk (generally cow's milk) while buster is someone who or something that bursts, breaks, or destroys a specified thing.As a verb butter
is to spread butter on.As a proper noun Buster is
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(wikipedia butter)Etymology 1
From (etyl), from (etyl) ).Noun
(en-noun)- butter of antimony
- peanut butter
Derived terms
* almond-butter * apple butter * as if butter would not melt in one's mouth * bean-butter * body butter * bog-butter * brandy butter * bread and butter * bread buttered on both sides * butteraceous * butter-ale * butter-and-egg man * butter and eggs, butter-and-eggs * butter and tallow tree * butter-ball, butterball * butter-back * butter-badger * butter-bag * butter-bake * butter-barrel * butter-basher * butter bean * butter-bird * butter-bitten * butter-boat * butterbore * butter-bowzy * butter-box * butter-boy * butterbread * butter brickle * butterbur * butter-bush * butter-cake * butterchurn * butter clam * butter cloth * butter color, butter colour * butter-cooler * butter cream * butter cross * buttercup * butter curler * butter-cutter * butter dish, butter-dish * butter dock, butter-dock * butter-duck * butter-factor * butter fat, butter-fat, butterfat * butter-fingered, butterfingered * butter-fingers, butterfingers * butter-fish, butterfish * butter-flip * butter-flower * butter icing * butterie * butterine * butterish * butter-jags * butter knife, butter-knife * butter-lamp * butter-leaves * butterless * butter letter * butter-man * butter-mark * butter-milk, buttermilk * butter-mold, butter-mould * butter-mouth * butter muslin * butter-nut, butternut * butter of almonds * butter of antimony * butter of arsenic * butter of bismuth * butter of cacao * butter of mace * butter of tin * butter of wax * butter of zinc * butter oil * butter paper * butter-pat * butter-pear * butter-plate * butter-print * butter-queen * butter-rigged * butter-root * butter salt * butter scoop * butterscot, butter-scotch, butterscotch * butter-slide, butterslide * butter spade * butter-spreader * butter stamp * butter-stick * butter substitute * butter tart * butter-toast * butter tongs * butter-tooth * butter-toothed * butter-tree * butter trier * butter-weed, butterweed * butter week * butter-weight * butter-whore * butter-wife * butter-woman * butter-worker * butter-working * butterwort * buttery * butter yellow * cacao butter * clarified butter * cocoa butter * coconut butter * cocum butter, kokum butter * dika-butter * drawn butter * duck butter * fairy butter, fairy's butter * Galam butter * gren butter * mahwa-butter * make butter and cheese of * May butter * melted butter * nut butter * palm-butter * peanut butter * process butter * renovated butter * rock butter * rum butter * shea butter * sugar-butter sauce * vegetable butter * witches' butterVerb
(en verb)- Butter the toast.
- (Johnson)
Derived terms
* butter one's bread on both sides * butter the cony * butter up * fine words butter no parsnips * have one's bread buttered for life * know which side one's bread is buttered onSee also
* butyraceous * gheeEtymology 2
buster
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(Buster)Alternative forms
* Buster * -busterNoun
(en noun)- Now death, I pray thee what is it, but a buster of bonds; a destruction of toyle?
- Rothlin was described... by the papers as the buster of the bandit ring.
- German ‘balloon busters ’ attack the Dover barrage.
- Our main purpose in further experimentation with nuclear bombs is not... to make city-busters more horrible.
- The buster must be careful to keep well away from sheds and timber.
- Men nicknamed him the ‘Booze Buster ’, and cartoonists loved to picture him, revolver in hand,... fighting the demon rum.
- The professional fraud-busters [of the art world].
- New York City traffic agents have become Gridlock Busters' and cigarette foes are ' smokebusters .
- ‘I had to clean this old roarer,’ continued the ‘editor’... as he wiped the barrel of his pistol. ‘She's a buster , I tell you.’
- What a buster of a lunch it turned out to be.
- That's generous, old buster .
- An extremely wealthy old buster .
- ‘Careful, buster ,’ she said. ‘I've got a knife in my hand.’
- Three penny busters , and a whole kit-full of winegar and mustard.
- An 8 loaf of brown bread... goes by the name of ‘buster ’, I suppose on account of the way they blow you out.
- They were on a buster , and were taken up by the police.
- All off for a buster , armstrong, hollering down the street.
- ‘This is a buster ,’ i.e. a powerful or heavy wind.
- The Buster and Brickfielder: austral red-dust blizzard and red-hot Simoom.
- When the barometer drops rapidly... watch out for a strong sou'wester. A buster can be on you in a flash.
- Dainty... came down ‘a buster ’ at the last hurdle, and Scots Grey cantered in by himself.
- In that state he is called a ‘Buster ’, bursting his shell.
- Restaurant August... serves contemporary French cuisine prepared with Louisiana ingredients like buster crabs, shrimp and oysters.
