apple butter

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   thick dark spicy puree of apples

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Questions about apple butter

What does apple butter mean?

apple butter means "thick dark spicy puree of apples".

Is apple butter a common word?

apple butter is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.