Peanut-buttery

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Indicative or characteristic of peanut butter; like peanut butter.

    "Nut oils have the same problem; they work against the flavors in the dairy fats to muddy each other’s subtleties, resulting in a flat, peanut-buttery taste."

  2. 2
    With peanut butter.

    "The situation may concern Dad’s favorite fountain pen, or the way you don’t turn the newspaper back after reading the funnies, or some bigger issue; it may concern Mother’s invariable scolding when you leave behind your peanut-buttery knives, bread-crumbs and milk glasses strewn over the table in a cleaned-up kitchen, or leave your bedroom a complete jumble when you rush off for high school."

Example

More examples

"Nut oils have the same problem; they work against the flavors in the dairy fats to muddy each other’s subtleties, resulting in a flat, peanut-buttery taste."

Etymology

From peanut butter + -y.

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