butterball
buh ter bawl
- n a rotund individual
- n small North American diving duck; males have bushy head plumage
- Classmates were not surprised, recalled that George once catapulted a butterball to the dining-room ceiling under the Doc's very nose, had to stand up and apologize.
- A film company presided over by an evil Germanic butterball named Otto Gerran embarks on a refitted trawler to shoot on location at Bear Island in the Arctic Circle.
- Teen-agers on the streets of New Orleans' Vieux Carr can still remember when their pal Willie Pastrano was a fat little five-foot butterball, the butt of all their jokes.