Yola

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Etymology

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From Middle English butter, from Old English butere, from Proto-West Germanic *buterā. It is a vulgar pronunciation of butter throughout Ireland.

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Noun

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buthther

  1. butter
    • 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 58:
      Muskawn of buthther.
      A large lump of butter.

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  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 29