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butterbread
[
buht
-er-bred ]
SHOW IPA
/ ˈbʌt ərˌbrɛd /
PHONETIC RESPELLING
noun
Chiefly Pennsylvania
.
bread spread with butter.
Origin of butterbread
1905–10; a calque of the Pennsylvania German equivalent of German
Butterbrot;
see
butter
,
bread
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