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 Translation for 'butter' from English to Spanish
NOUN   butter | -
VERB   to butter | buttered | buttered
buttering | butters
gastr.
mantequilla {f}
butter
11
gastr.
manteca {f} [rpl.]
butter
2
2 Words
aliment.
mantequera {f} [para hacer mantequilla]
(butter) churn
gastr.
cuchillo {m} para untar
butter knife [for spreading on bread]
gastr.
manteca {f} de cacao
cocoa butter
gastr.
mantequilla {f} de maní
peanut butter
gastr.
mantequilla {f} de cacahuetes
peanut butter
3 Words
gastr.
pan {m} con mantequilla
bread and butter
5+ Words
Es mejor que también consigamos un poco de mantequilla.We'd better get some butter as well.
ling.
hacerse la mosquita muerta
to look as if butter wouldn't melt in one's mouth [idiom] [to look innocent but capable doing something bad]
Taxa/Species (Animals, Plants, Fungi)
bot.gastr.T
alubia {f} blanca
butter bean
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Usage Examples English
  • Similar dishes include paneer butter masala and Kadai paneer.
  • Cannabis butter, or cannabutter, is unsalted butter blended with cannabis and water. Cleaned and dried buds are steeped in melted butter or oil in preparation for consumption.
  • The term has been used in Queensland, Australia, as a synonym for peanut butter. This followed pressure from dairy farmers who did not want peanut butter competing with butter for market share.
  • Scotch hands (also known as butter beaters, butter hands, butter workers or butter pats) are wooden spatulas used when making butter.
  • Buttercream, also referred to as butter icing or butter frosting, is used for either filling, coating or decorating cakes. The main ingredients are butter and some type of sugar.

  • Meggle produces butter and butter specialities such as herb, garlic and truffle butter. In 1995, cooled baguettes with herb butter were added to the product range.
  • The Boonah Butter Factory is now part of a network of extant historic or heritage listed butter factories in South East Queensland that have been re-purposed for cultural or community use including the Kingaroy Butter Factory, Nanango Butter Factory, The Downs Co-operative Dairy Association Limited Factory, Kingston Butter Factory and Grantham Butter Factory.
  • In 1971, they developed Butter Plus, a natural liquid replacement for butter. One pound of butter plus equals 50 pounds of actual butter.
  • Words on a list can be either descriptive or performative. 'Butter' on a shopping list implies that "I will buy butter" (a promise to yourself).
  • Yak butter is used in traditional tanning of hides.

  • "Manteiga-de-garrafa" (butter-from-a-bottle) or "manteiga-da-terra" (butter of the land) are terms in northeastern Brazil to refer to a clarified butter product, similar to Indian "ghee".
  • Butter is another common dairy product produced in Wisconsin. As of 2008, Wisconsin produces 22% of butter in the US, totaling [...] of butter.
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