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Butter-bump, bitter-bump. World English Historical Dictionary

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Butter-bump, bitter-bump. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1888, rev. 2024. Butter-bump, bitter-bump [f. butter, bitter, earlier forms of BITTERN + BUMP v.2] Local name of the Bittern; Phillips 1678 makes it a different bird, but prob. in error.

1 1671.  in Skinner.

2 1678.  Phillips (App.), Butterbump, a sort of Bird which some call Onocrotalus…. Others think this bird rather than the Bittern (which they call Ardea Stellaris) to be that which is called in Latin Buteo.

3 1678.  H. More, Glanvill’s Sadducismus, Postsc. (1681), 30. And does she not … put her Neb also into it sometimes, as into a Reed … and cry like a Butterbump?

4 1864.  Tennyson, North. Farmer (Old Style), viii. Moäst loike a butter-bump, fur I ’eerd ’um aboot an’ aboot.

5 1871.  E. Peacock, Ralf Skirl., II. 111. We got ten couple … besides two butter-bumps and a heronsew.

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