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Meaning of school-butter | Babel Free

Interjection CEFR A2

Definitions

A taunt used in the American South to call schoolboys out of school to fight.

obsolete

Examples

“On Tuesday morning before the homicide Aaron C. Shelton passed the school-house in which the school was then in session, hallooed school-butter, and passed on to his work without any disturbance […]”

CEFR level

A2
Elementary
This word is part of the CEFR A2 vocabulary — elementary level.

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