Buttery

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Having the qualities (especially the consistence) or appearance of butter.
  • Apt to let fall anything one ought to hold, as a ball in the game of cricket; butter-fingered.
  • noun. An apartment in a house in which wines, liquors, and provisions are kept; a pantry.
  • noun. In colleges, formerly, a room where liquors, fruits, and refreshments were kept for sale to the students.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. An apartment in a house where butter, milk and other provisions are kept.
  • noun. A room in some English colleges where liquors, fruit, and refreshments are kept for sale to the students.
  • noun. A cellar in which butts of wine are kept.
  • noun. a half door between the buttery or kitchen and the hall, in old mansions, over which provisions were passed.
  • adjective. Having the qualities, consistence, or appearance, of butter.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Made with or tasting of butter.
  • adjective. Resembling butter in some way.
  • noun. A room for keeping food or beverages; a storeroom.
  • noun. A room in a university where snacks are sold.
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  • noun. a teashop where students in British universities can purchase light meals
  • adjective. unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech
  • noun. a small storeroom for storing foods or wines
  • adjective. resembling or containing or spread with butter
  • Word Usage
    "(It's not the same as haddock/cod baked in buttery milk, of course.)"
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    fat  fatty  insincere  
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    blackish  coppery  creamy  crumbly  downy  
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