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embuttered

embuttered adjective: covered with butter.

Adjective

embuttered (not comparable)

  1. (rare) Covered with butter.
    • […] he turned gustily to the savor-drenched meats, the embuttered fish, the specially fragranced jellies and relishes, and to the spicy pimento wine.1962, Earl Conrad, Crane Eden, New York: Pyramid, Part One, p. 57
    • Hot butter squirted, by a quaint device, out of the bloodcoloured pudding. Gaius Caligula laughed to see the exquisite Lollia Paulina’s exquisite face embuttered.1985, Anthony Burgess, chapter 2, in The Kingdom of the Wicked, New York: Arbor House, pages 157–158

Origin of embuttered

From em- + butter + -ed.

Questions about embuttered

What does embuttered mean?
Embuttered means covered with butter.
What part of speech is embuttered?
Embuttered is an adjective.

Words near embuttered in the dictionary

  1. embusses
  2. embussing
  3. embusy
  4. embusying
  5. embutramide
  6. embuttered
  7. EMC
  8. emcee
  9. emceed
  10. emceeing
  11. emcees

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