| Pronunciation: | | 'buturee
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- [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"
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| | Synonyms: | | fat, fatty, fulsome, insincere, larder, oily, oleaginous, pantry, smarmy, unctuous |
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| | See Also: | | still room, stillroom, storage room, storeroom, stowage, tea parlor, tea parlour, teahouse, tearoom, teashop |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\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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