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BUTTERBALL

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small North American diving duck; males have bushy head plumage

Synonyms:

Bucephela albeola; bufflehead; butterball; dipper

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("butterball" is a kind of...):

duck (small wild or domesticated web-footed broad-billed swimming bird usually having a depressed body and short legs)

Holonyms ("butterball" is a member of...):

Bucephala; genus Bucephala (buffleheads and goldeneyes)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A rotund individual

Synonyms:

butterball; fat person; fatso; fatty; roly-poly

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("butterball" is a kind of...):

large person (a person of greater than average size)

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