Definition of Buttery

1. Noun. A small storeroom for storing foods or wines.

Exact synonyms: Larder, Pantry
Specialized synonyms: Still Room, Stillroom
Generic synonyms: Storage Room, Storeroom, Stowage

2. Adjective. Unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech. "Soapy compliments"

3. Noun. A teashop where students in British universities can purchase light meals.

4. Adjective. Resembling or containing or spread with butter. "A rich buttery cake"
Similar to: Fat, Fatty
Derivative terms: Butter

Definition of Buttery

1. a. Having the qualities, consistence, or appearance, of butter.

2. n. An apartment in a house where butter, milk and other provisions are kept.

Definition of Buttery

1. containing butter [adj -TERIER, -TERIEST] / a wine cellar [n -TERIES]

Medical Definition of Buttery

1. Origin: 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. 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. Buttery hatch, a half door between the buttery or kitchen and the hall, in old mansions, over which provisions were passed. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Buttery

butternut
butternut
butternuts
butternut squash
butternut tree
butters
butterscotch
butterscotches
butterweed
butterweed
butterweeds
butterwort
butterwort
butterworts
buttery (current term)
buttery (current term)
butter bean
butter churn
butter cookie
butter daisy
butter dish
butter knife
butter of bismuth
butter of zinc
butter stools
butter up
butter yellow
buttes
butthead
buttheads

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