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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. '