A knife whose blade has a blunt, rounded end, used for spreading butter.
Example sentencesExamples
Gently scrape the label off the clothing with a paring knife, a butter knife or another straight edge, such as a credit card or a ruler.
At that time gently dig into the soil around the cutting with a kitchen butter knife and lift out the new plant.
But the conversation was about as sharp as a butter knife.
Once sexy and exhilarating, it now has the cutting edge of a butter knife.
The butter knife slipped from her hand to the table with a piercing clatter.
Since you weren't allowed to touch pills with your fingers, you used an implement much like a butter knife.
Zero tolerance has given us the expulsion of students for using a knife in a science experiment, for leaving a butter knife in a car on school grounds, for carrying a folded nail file in a backpack.
She perused a butter knife before placing it next to a plate on the table.
And if I buy it, the first thing I'll do is go out and chop that damn tree down, with a blunt butter knife, if I have to.
The meat just fell off the ribs, and I certainly did not need the supplied steak knife, I could have used the butter knife, it was so tender.
Definition of butter knife in US English:
butter knife
nounˈbədər naɪfˈbədər nīf
A blunt knife used for cutting or spreading butter or other similar spreads.
黄油刀
Example sentencesExamples
Zero tolerance has given us the expulsion of students for using a knife in a science experiment, for leaving a butter knife in a car on school grounds, for carrying a folded nail file in a backpack.
She perused a butter knife before placing it next to a plate on the table.
At that time gently dig into the soil around the cutting with a kitchen butter knife and lift out the new plant.
The butter knife slipped from her hand to the table with a piercing clatter.
And if I buy it, the first thing I'll do is go out and chop that damn tree down, with a blunt butter knife, if I have to.
The meat just fell off the ribs, and I certainly did not need the supplied steak knife, I could have used the butter knife, it was so tender.
But the conversation was about as sharp as a butter knife.
Since you weren't allowed to touch pills with your fingers, you used an implement much like a butter knife.
Gently scrape the label off the clothing with a paring knife, a butter knife or another straight edge, such as a credit card or a ruler.
Once sexy and exhilarating, it now has the cutting edge of a butter knife.