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school-butter

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school-butter

  1. (obsolete) A taunt used in the American South to call schoolboys out of school to fight.
    • 1878, Virginia. General Assembly. Senate, Journal of the Senate of Virginia, page 31:
      On Tuesday morning before the homicide Aaron C. Shelton passed the school-house in which the school was then in session, hallooed school-butter, and passed on to his work without any disturbance […]
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