The word "butterball" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a person who looks soft, round and pleasant. For example, "His little daughter was such a butterball, with her round cheeks and twinkling eyes."
Better the carrotball than the butterball.
America's "Butterball turkey-tips hotline" first swings into action in the run-up to Thanksgiving.
Such is the level of swivel-eyed hatred afforded by the North-west of England towards the ever-chipper former Sun Editor Kelvin MacKenzie, I often ponder how he is still alive, breathing merrily and walking about in public without employing one of those brooding 6ft-tall, 400lb security guards nicknamed things like Butterball who are afforded to the likes of Beyoncé.
There are four of them: a gigantic dad squeezed uncomfortably into his seat, the slightest movement of whose titanic elbows threatens to dislodge the person sitting next to him, his butterball wife, and two burger-chewing children whose waistlines are rapidly expanding.
He was missing a tooth, and he had a brown backpack over one shoulder that was so jammed with stuff it looked like a thirty-pound Butterball.
I looked again at the bloated Butterball backpack and understood that it was basically a glorified laundry bag that had just travelled over two thousand miles.
As the fat clumps got bigger, they began to converge into one big butterball.
Well, this one is a three-hundred-pound Butterball.
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In matters of experience and scale, they have much advice to offer the rest of us, whether we're preparing an off-a-truck Butterball for the 20th time or a $150 heritage bird for the first.
A quiz. — Jeff Gordinier Bloomberg Businessweek: The very last gasp of Thanksgiving: a chronicle of life on the toll-free 800 help line at the Butterball company offices in Naperville, Ill., offering emergency advice to frantic home cooks since 1981.
