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butteries

butteries is the plural of buttery.

Meaning of buttery

Noun (1)

buttery (plural butteries)

  1. (Scotland) A rowie.
    • "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."2024 May 24, The Press and Journal, Inverness, page 28, column 2

Noun (2)

buttery (plural butteries)

  1. A room for keeping food or beverages; a storeroom.
    • ‘This is the storehouse and buttery of my company of the Guard,’1955 October 20, J[ohn] R[onald] R[euel] Tolkien, “Minas Tirith”, in The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of The Lord of the Rings […], New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, published December...
  2. (UK) A room in a university where snacks are sold.

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Questions about butteries

What is butteries the plural of?
Butteries is the plural of buttery.

Words near butteries in the dictionary

  1. butterhead lettuces
  2. butterheads
  3. butterhorn
  4. butterhorns
  5. butterier
  6. butteries
  7. butteriest
  8. butterine
  9. butterines
  10. butteriness
  11. buttering

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