oleomargarine
noun
oleomargarine is a noun meaning “A fatty substance obtained by solidifying purified beef fat, used to make the butter substitute margarine; also, (US) the butter substitute produced…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled O-L-E-O-M-A-R-G-A-R-I-N-E, and it appears about once in every 93 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of oleomargarine is oleomargarines.
What does oleomargarine mean?
noun
- 1
datedA fatty substance obtained by solidifying purified beef fat, used to make the butter substitute margarine; also, (US) the butter substitute produced in this way, margarine.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce oleomargarine?
- US
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Wodencafe-oleomargarine.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of oleomargarine
- oleomargarines plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is oleomargarine?
Oleomargarine appears about once in every 93 million words in written English, the 309,272nd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does oleomargarine come from?
From French oléomargarine, from oléo- (“oleo-”) + margarine (“margarin”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).