🧈

Butter Emoji 🧈

A slab sliced from the end of the stick, cut at an angle so the pale yellow cross-section shows clearly. Baking and cooking prep posts use it straight, while 'buttering someone up' borrows it figuratively for smoothing things over with flattery before asking for a favor that might otherwise get turned down flat.

What 🧈 means

A rectangular butter paper or plate with a slab of butter that is sliced at the beginning forming a rectangular buttery piece that's edging from the bar.

Literally, the 🧈 Butter emoji has a wide array of interpretations; from cholesterol and fat to dairy products and even flavor. Metaphorically, butter can mean a lot of things too, it can suggest a sense of being smooth and maybe even praised/praising.

How and when to use it

If flattery is being extended in your way, some accepted and some just too much, you can use 🧈 as a way of being both assertive and goofy. For instance, "Okay, that's enough. Man, aren't you great at buttering up someone 🧈".
If someone you just began breaking the ice with was super smooth in asking you out, use 🧈 in reply; it's workable in a positive and negative scenario.
Positive - "Whoa that was smooth 🧈 Yes, coffee at 5 tomorrow sounds great".
Negative - "Haha. Nice try, butter man 🧈".
Since butter too has a sexual connotation, 🧈 can be used while asking someone to "butter me up" or to "butter my biscuit" (aren't butter biscuits the best?').
Butter can also be used to describe something that's incredibly soft, almost at an ungodly level. For example, "Omggggg. Those baby cheeks are like shea butter, wtfff 🧈 😭".

Other Names

🧈 Margarine (how distasteful)
🧈 Fat
🧈 Slab of Butter
🧈 Butter Block
🧈 Yellow Butter
🧈 Unsalted (or Salted) Butter
🧈 Buttah
🧈 Buttery

The lowdown

Category: Food & Drink › food-prepared
Codepoints: U+1F9C8
Emoji version: Emoji 12.0
Shortcodes: :butter:
Keywords: butter, dairy

How it looks across platforms

Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.