buthther

Yola

Alternative forms

• buththere

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bʊˈtiː/

Noun

buthther

1. butter
   • 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 58:

     Muskawn of buthther.

     A large lump of butter.

Derived terms

• butheree

References

• 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