About The Word Buttery
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Buttery
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What's The Definition Of Buttery?
[n] a teashop where students in British universities can purchase light meals
[n] a small storeroom for storing foods or wines [adj] resembling or containing or spread with butter; "a rich buttery cake" [adj] unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech; "buttery praise"; "gave him a fulsome introduction"; "an oily sycophantic press agent"; "oleaginous hypocrisy"; "smarmy self-importance"; "the unctuous Uriah Heep" Synonyms | Synonyms for Buttery: fat | fatty | fulsome | insincere | larder | oily | oleaginous | pantry | smarmy | unctuous Related Terms | Find terms related to Buttery: See Also | still room | stillroom | storage room | storeroom | stowage | tea parlor | tea parlour | teahouse | tearoom | teashop Buttery In Webster's Dictionary \But"ter*y\, a.
Having the qualities, consistence, or appearance, of butter.
\But"ter*y\, n.; pl. {Butteries}. [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. --Weale. {Buttery hatch}, a half door between the buttery or kitchen and the hall, in old mansions, over which provisions were passed. --Wright. |
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