BUTTERBALL • FREE TRANSLATOR.ORG • Definition of Butterball

... Ivory-billed woodpecker, butterball, bufflehead. The wood-duck is greatly diminishing every year, and if not completely protected, ten years hence no wood-duck will be found in Louisiana.—(Frank M. Miller, and G.E. Beyer, ...

— Our Vanishing Wild Life - Its Extermination and Preservation • William T. Hornaday

... just a quarter after nine o'clock, but I knew she would be sleepy and would have to be forced to come with me very gently and slowly. Still, I didn't see how I could go on out into the woods with only Sam and the Butterball which was wheezing out cow conversation to Sam that I was intensely interested in and ought to have been listening to rather than wasting force on foolish proprieties. I was about to turn and take Sam's advice on the matter when he suddenly ...

— Over Paradise Ridge - A Romance • Maria Thompson Daviess