A fork of Rural Dictionary
to compliment effusively...sometimes insincerely sometimes not..with the idea of gaining favor
The way she went on about your new haircut I thought she was just trying to butter your bread
To lather someone's piece of bread/roll with butter or margarine. NOT a sexual innuendo to anal sex.
Eww Evan! I dont want to have sex with you, I want to help you butter your bread.
Fig. someone's basic income; someone's livelihood—the source of one's food.
I can't miss another day of work. That's my bread & butter. I worked as a bartender for a year, and it was the tips that were my bread and butter.
Spreading copious amounts semi-cold butter on your genitals to warm it, and then scraping it off with toast to be eaten at one's leisure.
Caleb - Were you buttering your bread this morning at work? Henri - Yeah how'd you know? Caleb - There's a grease stain on the front of your pants.
1. a random statement used in a group to cause gaiety 2. a vague sexual reference
Generally used after a lull in conversation, preferably in a southern accent. For example: A group of friends are frying up some snails for dinner while shooting everclear, and after a LULL in conversation the jokester in the group says butter my bread (emphasis on the southern accent, especially on the bread). The group is left stunned and confused at the unknown phrase, and laughter abounds.