Who taught: Alex, Andrew and Nolan

Lady Gaga covering her face (That is better!)

After work, Alex, Andrew, Nolan and I went to a park to play frisbee again. Well, this was my second time to play and I was not able to catch the disc. Looking at this, Andrew was making fun of me, saying “T-Bone! You’ve got butterfingers.” That was not really hard to understand. I believe you would also easily understand what it means, right? If you think of the fingers with a lot of butter on them, you know they will be very slippery to catch something. So, if you have someone who has a tendency to drop something, you can say like, “How could you drop it? You, butterfingers!” When we talk about this butter expression, Alex said, “Hey! I have a good expression for you. Do you know what butterface is?” “What? butterface?” said I. My first thought was it would mean someone who is greasy. Don’t you think it? I mean, if someone has butterface, he/she must be so greasy. Well, I was wrong. But I tried again. “How about someone does not have any hairs on face?” Wrong again! What the heck? My guesses are so close, aren’t they? Don’t you agree? But, unfortunately, they are far away from the original meaning of it. So, my friends decided to give me an example. Andrew said, “I think Lady Gaga is a good example of butterface.” And Nolan and Alex agreed. I was like, “what the heck? What are you trying to say to me?” Then, Andrew said again slowly, “I think Lady Gaga has a good body butterface.” “Say again?” I asked. “But–ter–face!” Finally, I got it! “But Her Face!” Here, I will say again.

Lady Gaga has a good body…. but her face!

Can you get it? Yeah, that is right! This expression is the one you can use only for describing a woman whose body is good but her face is not really beautiful. Then, I had to ask. “How about a lady whose face is good but her body is not good?” Andrew told me, “I have heard that people saying butterbody but I do not think that is quite good enough as butterface.” I totally agree.

So, if you walk with your friends and spot a woman who has really good body from her back but you think her face would not be good, then what you say? Here we go!

“I think she is butterface!”

One rule you should keep in mind is that you should speak it fast, almost like one word, if you want to be hip enough to use it as a good pun.