buttering Meaning & Definition

  • En [ ˈbʌt.ər]
  • Us [ ˈbʌt̬.ɚ]

Meaning of buttering In English

  • 0 present participle of butter

  • 1 to spread butter on something

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Examples of buttering

  • My action is of many types: a scraping, a buttering, a nocturnal pantry bumbling, a pursuit of a surreptitious snack, a self-indulgence, a midnight lark.

  • Let us not walk straight into another lot of litigation with the courts being accused of being silly and lawyers of buttering their bread.

  • I am not talking about buttering up local authorities.

  • I remember seeing there a machine which was capable of cutting and buttering go pieces of bread per minute without any human activity at all.

  • However, buttering one side of a slice of toast alters the surface properties.

  • For example, the patient may complete actions in incorrect orders, such as buttering bread before putting it in the toaster, or putting on shoes before putting on socks.

  • Patients were able to match a given sequence of photographs with the correct label such as: the process of making coffee, buttering bread, or preparing tea.

  • Buttering opened up a new world of technical tricks.

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