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fairy butter en · NOUN

Meanings

1. (uncountable) A food made from butter and egg yolks mixed with sugar and orange flower water.
2. (UK, dialectal, uncountable) Certain gelatinous fungi, the tremellas.
   • "A woman," he says, "who had been in their society challenged one of the guests whom she espied in the market selling fairy-butter." 1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 309:

Coordinates

nun's butter

Synonyms

fairies' butter