To be more clear, where I live, for my entire life, we’ve referred to what Lucy calls a dinner knife as a butter knife.
Google does seem to indicate dinner knife is more common.
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I have heard the dinner and butter knife terms used interchangeably for that knife.
I am with Lucy on using the whatever you want to call it knife with meals
Same
I’ve heard it both ways, depending on where I am in the USA.
We use the set of dinner knives for butter and peanut butter and mayo and mustard on an everyday basis. On more formal occasions where we set a whole table, we include dinner knives if they’re needed, AND the butter knife on the butter dish.
+1 for always calling “dinner knives” butter knives.
And who has a fancy knife solely for butter? That’s weird. Just use a “dinner knife”.
I’ve heard it called butter knives. No idea what it’s official called because I never use it lol
But the one she calls butterknife is definitely a butter knife. And I have one of those too. Never use it either.
Fancy people do.
I never in my life heard the term “dinner knife” until this thread. And I’ve lived in a lot of different states. I’m trying to remember what it was called when I learned how to set tables. I think it was just “knife”, but understood to be the “dinner knife”. I just thought it was called “butter knife.” We didn’t have the fancy little knife when I was learning table settings.
We have a fancy knife. It usually rests on the butter dish (which we also have, so fancy!). The butter dish lives near the stove, so if I’m cooking and need butter, bam.
I mean I have a fancy little knife now. I don’t recall if I have an actual butter dish in a little used cabinet though.
Do you extend your pinky when using the knife?
If so, it’s the formal butter knife.
If not, it’s the butter knife for you lot.
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the fact that butter needs a knife is the problem with white people
maybe it’s supposed to be, “But, her knife!”
Is it also a problem that white people need a washer for dishes?
washing dishes is hard, so I can forgive that
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We use a knife for peanut butter, jam, mayonnaise, mustard, honey, … why not butter?
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yeah, but you don’t have a NAME for those things. Mustard knife? gtfo
It isn’t a mustard knife, you use a mustard spoon. Then you use your sandwich knife to spread the spreadables.
wtf is a sandwich knife? You mean a butter knife? 
No, no, no. Before you assemble the sandwich, cut the bread in half with your bread knife. Now get out your cheese slicer and shave off a couple slices of cheese. Then use your carving knife to get your meat sliced off, right. Now, apply mustard with your mustard spoon and assemble everything. To toast your sandwich, simply apply butter with a butter knife (not that kind of butter knife, the other butter knife) and heat in a pan. You shouldn’t be using your dinner knife at all here.
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