peanut-buttery

Adjective

peanut-buttery (comparative more peanut-buttery, superlative most peanut-buttery)

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.1987, John Thorne, Simple Cooking, New York, N.Y.: Viking, →ISBN, page 142
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...1956 December 20, Gladys Bevans, “Child Obeys Parent Who Is Consistent”, in The Lexington Herald, volume 85, number 302, Lexington, Ky., page 18, columns 6–7
   • Also, hikers should avoid wiping peanut-buttery knives on their pants.1992, Rich Landers, Ida Rowe Dolphin, the Spokane Mountaineers, 100 Hikes in the Inland Northwest: Eastern Washington, Northern Rockies, Wallowas, Seattle, Wash.: The Mountaineers, →ISBN, page 23

   Synonyms:

   peanut-buttered