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nounbutter-and-egg man (plural butter-and-egg men)
plural butter-and-egg men
- USdatedslangA prosperous dairy farmer (or other wealthy rural citizen), seen as coming into the big city and ostentatiously living it up.
He puffed on the big cigar that he always had stuck in his face and posed back like a big butter-and-egg man.
1946, Milton “Mezz” Mezzrow, Bernard Wolfe, “Them First Kicks are a Killer”, in Really the Blues, New York, N.Y.: Random House, book 2 (1923–1928: Chicago, Chicago), page 69
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