school-butter

interjection

A taunt used in the American South to call schoolboys out of school to fight.

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Meanings

interjection
  1. obsoleteA taunt used in the American South to call schoolboys out of school to fight.

    On Tuesday morning before the homicide Aaron C. Shelton passed the school-house in which the school was then in session, hallooed school-butter, and passed on to his work without any disturbance […]

    1878, Virginia. General Assembly. Senate, Journal of the Senate of Virginia, page 31
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APA

school-butter. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/school-butter

MLA

“school-butter.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/school-butter. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “school-butter,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/school-butter.

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