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adj
Made with or tasting of butter.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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adj
Resembling butter in some way, such as yellow color or smooth texture.
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adj
Marked by insincere flattery; obsequious.
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Usage: informal
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adj
Ellipsis of buttery smooth.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
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name
A surname from Anglo-Norman.
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noun
A rowie.
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Usage: Scotland
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noun
A room for keeping food or beverages; a storeroom.
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noun
A room in a university where snacks are sold.
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Usage: UK
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adjective satellite
resembling or containing or spread with butter
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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adjective satellite
unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: fulsome, oily, oleaginous, smarmy, soapy, unctuous
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noun
a teashop where students in British universities can purchase light meals
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Broader terms: teashop, teahouse, tearoom, tea parlor, tea parlour
noun
a small storeroom for storing foods or wines
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: pantry, larder
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Broader terms: storeroom, storage room, stowage
Narrower terms: stillroom, still room
History
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.
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.
Across languages
16 source translations are retained for this English entry.
