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peanut buttery

peanut buttery adjective: resembling or characteristic of peanut butter.

Adjective

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

  1. Resembling or characteristic of peanut butter.
    • Inside they’ll be a fluffy, light brown with a nice, peanut buttery taste.1936 January 11, Mary Meade, “Here Is First of Lessons for Juvenile Cooks”, in Chicago Daily Tribune, volume XCV, number 10, Chicago, Ill., page 15
    • A bread with a subtle peanut buttery taste and aroma.1987, Ron Goor, Nancy Goor, Eater’s Choice: A Food Lover’s Guide to Lower Cholesterol, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN, page 276
  2. With peanut butter.
    • Tony! Don't you dare touch my new mohair sweater with those peanut buttery fingers.1965, Kathryn Bedaw, “Small Problems”, in Alter Ego, volume IV, [Montague, Mass.]: [Turners Falls High School], page 27
    • It’s not just the 22 drinking glasses on the drainboard indicated that two kids and two friends had five drinks of water between breakfast and lunch and that two of them didn’t like the color of the first clean glass they selected. It’s not even the apple cores, empty yogurt cartons and banana...1975 January 3, Gaye LeBaron, “Gaye LeBaron”, in The Press Democrat, 118th year, number 61, Santa Rosa, Calif., page 3, column 1

Examples of peanut buttery in a sentence

  • For a richer chocolate taste, substitute white chocolate chips for the butterscotch chips; for a peanut buttery taste, use peanut butter chips.1997, Joely Maddux, “[Done Fast Desserts] Butterscotch Peanut Clusters”, in Beta Sigma Phi, Fast Feasts, Nashville, Tenn.: Favorite...
  • I was addicted to them in high school for their peanut buttery taste and whenever we were allowed to go the PX, I bought a package of them.2000, Debra Haraldson, “Contraband”, in Just Shut Your Mouth & Do What You're Told: Surviving In The Army, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris...
  • I actually like pak, as it has a nutty (almost peanut buttery) taste, but my stomach isn’t impressed if I eat more than one ball per day.2005, Yvonne Prater, Ruth Dyar Mendenhall, with Kerry I. Smith, Beyond Gorp: Favorite Foods from Outdoor Experts, Seattle, Wash.: The...
  • But there is a creamy blend of crispety sugar candy and peanut buttery taste.2005, The Nestlé Cookbook: Hundreds of Triple-Tested, Easy Recipes for Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, and Dessert from the Largest Food Company...

Forms of peanut buttery

comparativemore peanut buttery
superlativemost peanut buttery

Questions about peanut buttery

What does peanut buttery mean?
Peanut buttery means resembling or characteristic of peanut butter.
How do you use peanut buttery in a sentence?
For a richer chocolate taste, substitute white chocolate chips for the butterscotch chips; for a peanut buttery taste, use peanut butter chips.
What part of speech is peanut buttery?
Peanut buttery is an adjective.

Words near peanut buttery in the dictionary

  1. peanut butter cup
  2. peanut butter cups
  3. peanut buttered
  4. peanut buttering
  5. peanut butters
  6. peanut buttery
  7. peanut cacti
  8. peanut cactus
  9. peanut galleries
  10. peanut gallery
  11. Peanut Man

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