butterbox

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noun

A wooden box in which butter is contained.

Scrabble 20
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Meanings

nounbutterbox (plural butterboxes)

plural butterboxes

  1. A wooden box in which butter is contained.

    A twelve-by-fourteen canvas would not pin in his box, so he had to make a stretcher for it, and very neatly he made it, out of strips of butter-box.

    1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 48
  2. USregionalThe bufflehead duck.

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
bufflehead
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APA

butterbox. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/butterbox

MLA

“butterbox.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/butterbox. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “butterbox,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/butterbox.

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