butterball noun3 •A round lump of a coagulated fat used in cooking such as butter or margarine. •(slang, offensive) An overweight person.What if your baby is a butterball? Does Fat-Proofing mean you should put your infant on diet?. — 1988 •A small North American duck, the bufflehead, Bucephala albeola.The skipper had his eye on a bunch of butterballs feeding not far from the boat. In fact there were ducks all around — though he did not tell me so. — 1917 formsbutterballs