What does butterbox mean?
Butterbox means A wooden box in which butter is contained..
Looking up this word…
Checking saved dictionary data and trusted language sources. This will stop automatically if a source does not respond.
Checking saved dictionary data and trusted language sources. This will stop automatically if a source does not respond.
Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
A wooden box in which butter is contained..
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.
Use butterbox when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Butterbox means A wooden box in which butter is contained..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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.
FreeDictionaryAPI.com / Wiktionary · Original source · CC BY-SA 4.0
Dictionary data is provided by FreeDictionaryAPI.com and sourced from Wiktionary under its stated license.