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
22 December 2024
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