butterboxとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

butterbox (複数形 butterboxes)

1. A wooden box in which butter is contained.
   • 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, Sydney: Ure Smith, published 1962, OCLC 751607287, page 48:

     A twelve-by-fourteen canvas would not pin in his box, so he had to make a stretcher for it, and very neatly he made it, out of strips of butter-box.

2. (US, regional) The bufflehead duck.

語源

The idiom may have derived from the flag of Holland, which at the time had an orange stripe on top.