flutterby

English

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Noun

flutterby (plural flutterbies)

  1. (childish or Northumbria) Spoonerism of butterfly

Usage notes

Occasionally analysed as flutter + by and falsely claimed to be the original form of "butterfly", based on the assumption that naming the insects after their flight is more intuitive than naming them after butter.

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