buttery.
Made with or tasting of butter.
Meaning & usage
Made with or tasting of butter.
The buttery-tasting cookie was actually made with margarine, but you couldn't tell by tasting it.
Resembling butter in some way, such as yellow color or smooth texture.
The old paper was a buttery color you no longer get.
Marked by insincere flattery; obsequious.
Ellipsis of buttery smooth.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English buttry, equivalent to butter + -y. Piecewise doublet of butyric, butter ultimately being from Latin būtȳrum and -y being a doublet of -ic.
A rowie.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English buttry, equivalent to butter + -y. Piecewise doublet of butyric, butter ultimately being from Latin būtȳrum and -y being a doublet of -ic.
A room for keeping food or beverages; a storeroom.
A room in a university where snacks are sold.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English boterie, from Old French boterie and Medieval Latin buteria, from Late Latin botāria, from a variant form of butta (“cask, bottle”). The form was probably influenced by butter.
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