overbutter

present singular third person overbutters · participle present overbuttering · participle past overbuttered · past overbuttered

1. To butter excessively.

   “I thought you wanted eggs.” Stella began overbuttering a small croissant.

   2013 March, Amber Dermont, “Stella at the Winter Palace”, in Damage Control: Stories, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press, →ISBN, page 93

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   It had not occurred to him that they might want more than the touching and the stroking and the kissing and the fucking: that it was in women to arouse and lavish and spoil in other ways besides overbuttering sandwiches.

   1991 May, Gwen Davis, chapter 15, in Jade: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Warner Books, →ISBN, page 198

   “Spinoza is a Sephardic name, but I’m mostly Ashkenazi,” said Joshua, nervously overbuttering his bread.

   2006, Y[oun-Kee] Euny Hong, “Sunday Brunch”, in Kept: A Comedy of Sex and Manners, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 112