English

Noun

butter-and-egg man ‎(plural butter-and-egg men)

1. (US slang, dated) A prosperous dairy farmer (or other wealthy rural citizen), seen as coming into the big city and ostentatiously living it up.
   • 1946, Mezz Mezzrow and Bernard Wolfe, Really the Blues, Payback Press 1999, p. 69:

     He puffed on the big cigar that he always had stuck in his face and posed back like a big butter-and-egg man.