Butterbox has a couple of meanings, both satisfyingly specific.
Butterbox has a couple of meanings, both satisfyingly specific. Literally, it's a wooden container used to store or transport butter — the kind of old-fashioned crate you'd find at a country market. In certain US regional dialects, butterbox is also a folk name for the bufflehead duck, a small, stocky diving duck whose rounded shape apparently reminded someone of a butter container. It's the kind of quirky regional wildlife nickname that sounds made up until you look at a bufflehead and think, 'okay, yeah, that tracks.'
The old butterbox from the farmhouse was engraved with the family's initials and had been used for decades.
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(archaic, slang, derogatory, British) A Dutch person; used in the era of the Anglo-Dutch Wars.
A dish consisting of soft butter, spread over a wooden cutting board, and sprinkled with condiments, ingredients and edible decorations such as salt, pepper, chili flakes, honey, lemon zest, fruit or vegetable slices, herbs or edible flowers.
A box for keeping salt in.
(US, regional) The bufflehead duck.
A wooden box in which butter is contained.