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but·ter·y1    Audio Help   [buht-uh-ree] Pronunciation Key
–adjective
1.like, containing, or spread with butter.
2.resembling butter, as in smoothness or softness of texture: a vest of buttery leather.
3.grossly flattering; smarmy.
[Origin: 1350–1400; ME buttry. See butter, -y1]

—Related forms
but·ter·i·ness, noun
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but·ter·y2    Audio Help   [buht-uh-ree, buh-tree] Pronunciation Key
–noun, plural -ter·ies.
1.Chiefly New England. a room or rooms in which the provisions, wines, and liquors of a household are kept; pantry; larder.
2.a room in colleges, esp. at Oxford and Cambridge universities, from which articles of food and drink are sold or dispensed to the students.
[Origin: 1350–1400; ME boterie < AF, prob. equiv. to bote butt4 + -erie -ery]
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but·ter·y 1    Audio Help   (bŭt'ə-rē)  Pronunciation Key 
adj.  
  1. Containing or spread with butter.
  2. Like or resembling butter.
  3. Marked by effusive and insincere flattery.

but'ter·i·ness n.
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but·ter·y 2    Audio Help   (bŭt'ə-rē, bŭt'rē)  Pronunciation Key 
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.


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

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buttery

adjective
1. 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" 
2. resembling or containing or spread with butter; "a rich buttery cake" 

noun
1. a small storeroom for storing foods or wines [syn: pantry] 
2. a teashop where students in British universities can purchase light meals 

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ˈbuttery adjective
Example: a buttery knife
Arabic: زُبْدي
Chinese (Simplified): 黄油的
Chinese (Traditional): 黃油的
Czech: máslový, na máslo
Danish: smøragtig
Dutch: boterachtig
Estonian: võine
Finnish: voinen
French: beurré, couvert de beurre
German: butterig
Greek: βουτυρωμένος, καλυμμένος με βούτυρο
Hungarian: vajas
Icelandic: smjörkenndur; þakinn smjöri
Indonesian: mengandung mentega
Italian: imburrato, burroso
Japanese: バターの付いた
Korean: 버터를 바른
Latvian: sviestains
Lithuanian: sviestuotas
Norwegian: smør-, smørliknende
Polish: maślany
Portuguese (Brazil): amanteigado, cheiro de manteiga
Portuguese (Portugal): de, *com manteiga
Romanian: cu unt; untos
Russian: масляный
Slovak: na maslo, maslový
Slovenian: maslen
Spanish: mantecoso
Swedish: smörig
Turkish: yağlı
See also: butter, butter up, butterfingers, butterscotch

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Buttery

But"ter*y\, a. Having the qualities, consistence, or appearance, of butter.
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Buttery

But"ter*y\, n.; pl. Butteries. [OE. botery, botry; cf. LL. botaria wine vessel; also OE. botelerie, fr. F. bouteillerie, fr. boutellie bottle. Not derived from butter. See Bottle a hollow vessel, Butt a cask.]

1. An apartment in a house where butter, milk and other provisions are kept.

All that need a cool and fresh temper, as cellars, pantries, and butteries, to the north. --Sir H. Wotton.

2. A room in some English colleges where liquors, fruit, and refreshments are kept for sale to the students.

And the major Oxford kept the buttery bar. --E. Hall.

3. A cellar in which butts of wine are kept. --Weale.

Buttery hatch, a half door between the buttery or kitchen and the hall, in old mansions, over which provisions were passed. --Wright.
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