Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

butterbox

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: but-ter-box
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A wooden box in which butter is contained.

noun

The bufflehead duck.

American usage

Example Sentences

"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."

Usage

American usage

Inflected Forms

butterboxes (plural)

Questions

What does butterbox mean?: A wooden box in which butter is contained.

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