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buttery
(adjective) resembling or containing or spread with butter; “a rich buttery cake”
buttery, fulsome, oily, oleaginous, smarmy, soapy, unctuous
(adjective) unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech; “buttery praise”; “gave him a fulsome introduction”; “an oily sycophantic press agent”; “oleaginous hypocrisy”; “smarmy self-importance”; “the unctuous Uriah Heep”; “soapy compliments”
buttery
(noun) a teashop where students in British universities can purchase light meals
pantry, larder, buttery
(noun) a small storeroom for storing foods or wines
Source: WordNet® 3.1
buttery (comparative butterier, superlative butteriest)
Made with or tasting of butter.
Resembling butter in some way, such as color or texture.
(informal) Marked by insincere flattery; obsequious.
• butterish
• butterlike
• butyraceous
• butyric (rare)
buttery (plural butteries)
A room for keeping food or beverages; a storeroom.
(UK) A room in a university where snacks are sold.
• Buttrey, Tetbury
Buttery (plural Butterys)
A surname.
• According to the 2010 United States Census, Buttery is the 31068th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 747 individuals. Buttery is most common among White (95.45%) individuals.
• Buttrey, Tetbury
Source: Wiktionary
But"ter*y, a.
Definition: Having the qualities, consistence, or appearance, of butter.
But"ter*y, n.; pl. Buttplwies (. Etym: [OE. botery, botry; cf. LL. botaria wine vessel; also OE. botelerie, fr. F. bouteillerie, fr. boutellie bottle. Not derived from butter. See Bottle a hollow vessel, Butt a cask.]
1. An apartment in a house where butter, milk and other provisions are kept. All that need a cool and fresh temper, as cellars, pantries, and butteries, to the north. Sir H. Wotton.
2. A room in some English colleges where liquors, fruit, and refreshments are kept for sale to the students. And the major Oxford kept the buttery bar. E. Hall.
3. A cellar in which butts of wine are kept. Weale. Buttery hatch, a half door between the buttery or kitchen and the hall, in old mansions, over which provisions were passed. Wright.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
21 June 2025
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Coffee is the second largest traded commodity in the world, next to crude oil. It’s also one of the oldest commodities, with over 2.25 billion cups of coffee consumed worldwide daily.