Buttery
adj, name, noun, slang ·Common ·High school level
Definitions
- 1 A rowie. Scotland
""We used to make 50 tins of butteries just for our Saturday trade, now it's about 20 tins, se we've seen a real shift which we've put down to an increased focus on health.""
- 2 A room for keeping food or beverages; a storeroom.
"‘This is the storehouse and buttery of my company of the Guard,’"
- 3 a teashop where students in British universities can purchase light meals wordnet
- 4 A room in a university where snacks are sold. UK
- 5 a small storeroom for storing foods or wines wordnet
- 1 Made with or tasting of butter.
"The buttery-tasting cookie was actually made with margarine, but you couldn't tell by tasting it."
- 2 Resembling butter in some way, such as yellow color or smooth texture.
"The old paper was a buttery color you no longer get."
- 3 Marked by insincere flattery; obsequious. informal
"He'll be nothing but enraptured with your buttery words ."
- 4 Ellipsis of buttery smooth. abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
"(see title)"
- 1 resembling or containing or spread with butter wordnet
- 2 unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech wordnet
- 1 A surname from Anglo-Norman.
Example
More examples"Avocados have a buttery texture."
Etymology
From Middle English buttry, equivalent to butter + -y. Piecewise doublet of butyric, butter ultimately being from Latin būtȳrum and -y being a doublet of -ic.
From Middle English boterie, from Old French boterie and Medieval Latin buteria, from Late Latin botāria, from a variant form of butta (“cask, bottle”). The form was probably influenced by butter.
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