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English word butterfly comes from Old English buttorflēoge
buttorflēoge (Old English)
boterflye (Middle English)
butterfly (English)
(transitive) To cut (food) almost entirely in half and spread the halves apart, in a shape suggesting the wings of a butterfly.. (transitive) To cut strips of surgical tape or plasters into thin strips, and place across (a gaping wound) to close it. (now, rare) Someone seen as being unserious and (originally) dressed gaudily; someone flighty and unreliable. [from 17th c.]. A flying insect of [...]