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butter (v.)
Old English
buterian
"spread butter on," from the same source as
butter
(n.). Figurative meaning "to flatter lavishly" is by 1798 (with
up
(adv.), in Connelly's Spanish-English dictionary, p.413). Related:
Buttered
;
buttering
.