“butter、ball”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

butter-ball

释义

ˈbutter-ball
1. A ball of butter; butter moulded into a ball.
1892J. C. Harris Plantation Printer 58 She wur a fine cow too, ez fat ez a butter-ball.1901Greenough & Kittredge Words (1902) 177 Thus we have butterball, a ball that consists of butter.1952L. MacNeice Ten Burnt Offerings ix. 85 One minute quicksilver, next minute butterballs.
2. The buffle-head or buffle-headed duck, Clangula albeola, of North America, so called from its exceeding fatness in autumn. U.S.
a1813Wilson Amer. Ornith. (1814) VIII. 51 Buffel-headed Duck{ddd}usually known by the name of the Butter-box, or Butter-ball.1874[see bufflehead 2].1895Outing (U.S.) XXVII. 212/1 Over me they went, so close that I could tell that they were butter balls.1902S. E. White Blazed Trail xiii. 85 Butterballs and scoters paddled up at his approach.

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