buttery (redirected from butteriness)

but·ter·y ¹  (bt-r)

adj.

1. Containing or spread with butter.

2. Like or resembling butter.

3. Marked by effusive and insincere flattery.

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butter·i·ness n.

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but·ter·y ²  (bt-r, btr)

n. pl. but·ter·ies

1. A room in which liquors are stored.

2. Chiefly British A place in colleges and universities where students may buy provisions.

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[Middle English buttrie, from Anglo-Norman buterie, alteration of botelerie, from Old French botele, bottle; see bottle.]

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buttery

Noun

pl -teries Brit (in some universities) a room in which food and drink are sold to students [Latin butta cask]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	buttery - a small storeroom for storing foods or wines pantry, larder still room, stillroom - a pantry or storeroom connected with the kitchen (especially in a large house) for preparing tea and beverages and for storing liquors and preserves and tea etc storage room, storeroom, stowage - a room in which things are stored
	2.	buttery - a teashop where students in British universities can purchase light meals tea parlor, tea parlour, teahouse, tearoom, teashop - a restaurant where tea and light meals are available
Adj.	1.	buttery - unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech; "buttery praise"; "gave him a fulsome introduction"; "an oily sycophantic press agent"; "oleaginous hypocrisy"; "smarmy self-importance"; "the unctuous Uriah Heep"; "soapy compliments" fulsome, oleaginous, smarmy, unctuous, soapy, oily insincere - lacking sincerity; "a charming but thoroughly insincere woman"; "their praise was extravagant and insincere"
	2.	buttery - resembling or containing or spread with butter; "a rich buttery cake" fatty, fat - containing or composed of fat; "fatty food"; "fat tissue"