butter knife

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   a small knife with a dull blade; for cutting or spreading butter

   Broadertable knife

Questions about butter knife

What does butter knife mean?

butter knife means "a small knife with a dull blade; for cutting or spreading butter".

Is butter knife a common word?

butter knife 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.