BUTTER-FINGERED, adj. having tender fingers. Said of one who cannot hold a hot plate, &c.
- Mr. Doig gives butter-tender, but I have never heard the word except in the expression 'butter-fingered.' 'She must not be butter-fingered, sweet-toothed, nor faint-hearted.'—Markham's English Housewife, 1649, p. 80.
BUTTERFITT COMMON, in Ecclesfield. Harrison.
- This word is a variant of Butterthwaite.
BUTTER-SCOTCH, sb. a sweet-meat made of butter and sugar boiled together. It is usually cut in squares. See SCOTCH.
BUTTER-TEETH, sb. pl. large broad front teeth. Hunter's MS.
BUTTERTHWAITE, a place in Ecclesfield parish. 'Anciently written Burgthwaite or Brigthwaite'—Eastwood, 360.
BUTTON LANE, in Ecclesall, near Carter Knowle. Harrison mentions it.
- There is also Button Lane in Sheffield, near the Moorhead.
BUTTS, sb. pl. short pieces of plough lands in the corners of irregularly shaped fields.
- When a field, for example, is thus shaped:—
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- The 'lands' ABDC, CDFE, &c., are called butts or gores. See GORE and COWLEY GORE. 'A little meadow called the Buts.'—Harrison. 'A peice of arrable land lying in stony butts.'—Ibid. 'Short butts.'—Ibid. 'A piece of arable land lying in a furlong called Butts.'—Ibid.
BUTTY, sb. a confederate.
BUXOM, adj. 'denotes a good-tempered, well-fed, rural beauty, not unconscious of her power of attraction, nor unwilling to receive a chaste expression of admiration, or to meet proper advances half way.'—Hunter's MS.
BUZZ, v. to make a whirring sound.
- 'An owd cock grouse buzzed up reight under his feet, an' it maad t' moor fair shak ageean.'
