"Butters" meaning in English

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Proper name

Forms: Butterses [plural]
Etymology: A variant of Butter, or alternatively an occupational surname for a worker in a wine cellar, from Norman boterie (“wine cellar”) + genitive -s. Etymology templates: {{m|en|Butter}} Butter, {{der|en|nrf|boterie||wine cellar}} Norman boterie (“wine cellar”), {{m|en|-s}} -s Head templates: {{en-prop|~|es}} Butters (countable and uncountable, plural Butterses)
  1. A surname from Norman. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-Butters-en-name-FsYIWOmF Categories (other): English surnames
  2. A census-designated place in Bladen County, North Carolina, United States. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (place): Census-designated places in North Carolina, USA, Census-designated places in the United States, Places in North Carolina, USA, Places in the United States
    Sense id: en-Butters-en-name-K8HHMxvc Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 3 83 14
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Proper name

Head templates: {{head|en|proper noun form}} Butters
  1. plural of Butter Tags: form-of, plural Form of: Butter
    Sense id: en-Butters-en-name-FJcvxn3M
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Inflected forms

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