butterball
Example Sentences
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Now, scientists, park rangers and others are out to catch the wild butterball.
From Washington Post • Apr. 22, 2022
“As soon as these cats get a little bit acclimated at Big Cat Rescue they’ll be enjoying and receiving their own butterball turkey for Thanksgiving and they’ll be getting their own Christmas treat,” Bass said.
From Washington Times • Nov. 29, 2019
And he’s like a little chubby butterball, but he has fun, and he’s cute.
From Time • Jul. 22, 2015
Sam Marlowe writes that the original numbers "roll flavourlessly by until they merge into a single-click butterball of inconsequentiality".
From The Guardian • Jun. 26, 2013
“You were a little butterball when you were a baby. You had these chubby cheeks that I swear I could’ve kissed all day. It only felt right to call you pumpkin.”
From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.