Definition of BUTTERY

buttery

Meanings

Plural: butteries

Noun

  • a small storeroom for storing foods or wines
  • a teashop where students in British universities can purchase light meals
  • A rowie.
  • A room for keeping food or beverages; a storeroom.
  • A room in a university where snacks are sold.

Adjective Satellite

  • unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech
    • "buttery praise"
  • resembling or containing or spread with butter
    • "a rich buttery cake"

Adj

  • Made with or tasting of butter.
  • Resembling butter in some way, such as yellow color or smooth texture.
  • Marked by insincere flattery; obsequious.
  • Ellipsis of buttery smooth.

Origin / Etymology

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.

Scrabble Score: 12

buttery is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
buttery is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
buttery is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 13

buttery is a valid Words With Friends word