buttery Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a small storeroom for storing foods or wines
    larder; pantry.
  2. noun a teashop where students in British universities can purchase light meals
  3. adjective satellite unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech
    fulsome; unctuous; soapy; oleaginous; smarmy; oily.
    • buttery praise
    • gave him a fulsome introduction
    • an oily sycophantic press agent
    • oleaginous hypocrisy
    • smarmy self-importance
    • the unctuous Uriah Heep
    • soapy compliments
  4. adjective satellite resembling or containing or spread with butter
    • a rich buttery cake

WordNet

But"ter*y adjective
Definitions
  1. Having the qualities, consistence, or appearance, of butter.
But"ter*y noun
Etymology
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.
Wordforms
plural Butteries
Definitions
  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. Wright.

Webster 1913