buttery

/'bʌtəri/
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buttery

A chef spreads a buttery glaze over a warm loaf of bread.

Definition

  1. Adjective:

    • Resembling or containing butter: Having the qualities, appearance, or taste of butter.
    • Excessively flattering or ingratiating: Unpleasantly smooth, suave, or insincerely complimentary in manner.

  2. Noun:

    • A small storeroom for provisions: A pantry or larder, especially in an institution like a college, for storing food or wine.
    • A teashop in a British university: A place in a British university where students can buy light meals and snacks.
Usage Examples

  • Adjective:

    • The popcorn had a delicious, buttery flavor. (It had a taste similar to butter.)
    • His buttery compliments made everyone suspicious of his motives. (His flattery was excessively smooth and insincere.)

  • Noun:

    • The college buttery was well-stocked with jams and biscuits. (The college's small food storeroom had many supplies.)
    • We met for tea at the university buttery. (We met at the university's teashop.)
Advanced Usage
  • Descriptive Use: The adjective can describe textures (e.g., a buttery soft leather) or flavors in cooking and baking beyond just literal butter content.
    • The sauce had a smooth, buttery consistency.
Variants and Related Words
  • Butter (n/v): The fatty substance itself, or the act of spreading it.
  • Butteriness (n): The quality of being buttery.
Synonyms
  • Adjective (for taste/texture): creamy, rich, fatty.
  • Adjective (for manner): unctuous, oily, sycophantic, smarmy, fulsome, ingratiating.
  • Noun (for room): pantry, larder, storeroom.
Idioms and Phrases
  • No direct idioms for "buttery" as an isolated word. The word itself is used descriptively in phrases like "buttery smooth" or "buttery flavor."
buttery

A chef spreads a buttery glaze over a warm loaf of bread.

Adjective
  1. resembling or containing or spread with butter
    • a rich buttery cake
  2. 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
Noun
  1. a teashop where students in British universities can purchase light meals
  2. a small storeroom for storing foods or wines

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