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Meaning of 'Buttery' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Buttery [ a.]
- Having the qualities, consistence, or appearance, of butter.
2 . Buttery [ n.]
- An apartment in a house where butter, milk and other provisions are kept.
- A room in some English colleges where liquors, fruit, and refreshments are kept for sale to the students.
- A cellar in which butts of wine are kept.

Meaning of 'Buttery' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . buttery [ s]
Meaning (1):
- resembling or containing or spread with butter
Example in sentence:
  • a rich buttery cake
Meaning (2):
- unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech
Example in sentence:
  • an oily sycophantic press agent;
  • buttery praise;
  • gave him a fulsome introduction;
  • oleaginous hypocrisy;
  • smarmy self-importance;
  • soapy compliments;
  • the unctuous Uriah Heep

Nearby Words:

but but-thorn butane butcher butcher's broom butchered butchering butcherliness butcherly butchery

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