butternut
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Is butternut a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (informal outside South Africa) Butternut squash.Examples: "He made a delicious butternut soup."countableuncountable
noun (English)
1. (US, 19th century) Southern settlers of the Ohio river basin, who used dye from the butternut tree to colour their home-made clothingExamples: "Yankees took to calling the Borderlanders “butternuts”—a reference to the color of their crude homespun clothes."USobsolete
2. (US, obsolete) A Confederate Southerner, or somebody who supported southern rights and slaveryExamples: "The Illinois troops delivered a volley that sent the butternuts scampering back across the field."USobsolete
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