buttery
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buttery¹
- /ˈbʌtəɹi/ UK
- /ˈbʌtɹi/ UK
- /ˈbʌt(ə)ɹi/ US
Where it comes from
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.
adjective butterier · butteriest
- Made with or tasting of butter. The buttery-tasting cookie was actually made with margarine, but you couldn't tell by tasting it.
- Resembling butter in some way, such as yellow color or smooth texture. The old paper was a buttery color you no longer get.
- Marked by insincere flattery; obsequious. He'll be nothing but enraptured with your buttery words .
- Ellipsis of buttery smooth (see title)
Similar: butterish, butterlike, butyraceous, butyric
noun butteries
- A rowie. "We used to make 50 tins of butteries just for our Saturday trade, now it's about 20 tins, se we've seen a real shift which we've put down to an increased focus on health."
buttery²
- /ˈbʌtəɹi/ UK
- /ˈbʌtɹi/ UK
- /ˈbʌt(ə)ɹi/ US
Where it comes from
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.
noun butteries
- A room for keeping food or beverages; a storeroom. ‘This is the storehouse and buttery of my company of the Guard,’
- A room in a university where snacks are sold.
Buttery³
proper noun Butterys
- A surname from Anglo-Norman.
Thesaurus
adjective
Similar: butterish, butterlike, butyraceous, butyric
Translations
Talk about this word "buttery." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/buttery. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. buttery. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/buttery "buttery." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/buttery.Cite this
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title = {buttery},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/buttery},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
