bull butter

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From bull +‎ butter.

Pronunciation[edit]

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Noun[edit]

bull butter (uncountable)

  1. (dated, derogatory) margarine
    • 1892, R. Henry Rew, “An inquiry into the statistics of the production and consumption of milk in Great Britain.”, in Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, volume 55, page 285:
      About one-third of this importation was margarine, which in America was called "bull butter."
  2. (euphemistic, slang, literal or figurative) bullshit
    • 2014, Ken English, More COMMON Sense, page 86:
      (for you city folks, bull butter is that black, smelly substance found in piles all over cow pastures) but in your case, the bull butter ain't on the outside.
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