butterball

noun

but·​ter·​ball ˈbə-tər-ˌbȯl How to pronounce butterball (audio)
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: a chubby person

Examples of butterball in a Sentence

I was a little butterball when I was a child.
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Mine was about four pounds and round as a butterball. Jim Gronaw, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 14 Nov. 2021 Jackson shopped him, hoping to get Blake Griffin or Kevin Love, only to learn that no one would give up a star for a soon-to-turn-33-year-old butterball with a modest resume (three playoff series wins in 13 seaons) and a $24.6 million salary. Mark Heisler, Orange County Register, 10 Feb. 2017 Lohuis rated each sheep's body condition on a five-point scale where zero was dead and five was as fat as a butterball. Rick Sinnott, Alaska Dispatch News, 24 June 2017

Word History

First Known Use

1813, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Time Traveler
The first known use of butterball was in 1813

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“Butterball.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/butterball. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.

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