buttery
Syllables: but·te·ry/ˈbʌtəɹi/US/ˈbʌt(ə)ɹi/
buttery adjective: made with or tasting of butter. Also the ellipsis of buttery smooth.
Adjective
buttery (comparative butterier, superlative butteriest)
- Made with or tasting of butter.
- The buttery-tasting cookie was actually made with margarine, but you couldn't tell by tasting it.
- Resembling butter in some way, such as yellow color or smooth texture.
- The old paper was a buttery color you no longer get.
- While the European pear is, at its finest, buttery and surrenders to the slightest pressure, Asian pears are firm, very crisp, hugely juicy and sweet and, in some cases, highly aromatic – spicy almost.2015 September 5, Mark Diacono, “In praise of the Asian pear”, in The Daily Telegraph (Gardening), archived from the original on 12 Sep 2015, pages 1–2
- Marked by insincere flattery; obsequious.
- He'll be nothing but enraptured with your buttery words .1997, Russell Wild, Games Bosses Play: 36 Career Busters Your Supervisor May Be Firing Your Way and How You Can Defend Yourself, page 100
- Dawson, for one, is on the right wavelength, goosing his buttery game-show host persona into a caricature of unctuous evil.2000, Scott von Doviak, Stephen King Films FAQ: All That's Left to Know About the King of Horror on Film
Noun (1)
buttery (plural butteries)
- 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)
- 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...
- Pretty Pia from the buttery was a slut who was working her way through every knight in the castle.1999, George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings, Bantam, published 2011, page 458
- A room in a university where snacks are sold.
Proper noun capitalized: Buttery
Buttery (plural Butterys)
- A surname from Anglo-Norman.
Also used as
buttery is also the ellipsis of buttery smooth.
buttery meaning in Hindi
buttery in Hindi
- made with or tasting of butter
- मखानी makhānī
Examples of buttery in a sentence
- Would it taste sweet and buttery like Isao’s freshly baked loaves?
- Every game has a target frame rate to hit so that the gaming experience is buttery smooth.
- I let Oreo lick my sticky peanut buttery fingers, and like magic, they’re all clean!
Synonyms of buttery
Forms of buttery
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | butterier |
| superlative | butteriest |
| Noun | |
| plural | butteries |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Butterys |
Origin of buttery
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.
Words formed from buttery
Phrases with buttery
Questions about buttery
- What does buttery mean?
- Buttery means made with or tasting of butter.
- What is buttery in Hindi?
- Buttery in Hindi is मखानी (makhānī). See Buttery meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is buttery?
- Buttery can be an adjective, a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce buttery?
- Buttery is pronounced /ˈbʌtəɹi/ (UK).
Words near buttery in the dictionary
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