buttery

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈbʌtəɹi/

Etymology 1

From Old French boterie, from Late Latin botāria, from a variant form of butta (“cask, bottle”). The form was probably influenced by butter.

Noun

buttery (plural butteries)

1. A room for keeping food or beverages; a storeroom.
   • 1999, George RR Martin, A Clash of Kings, Bantam 2011, p. 458:

     Pretty Pia from the buttery was a slut who was working her way through every knight in the castle.

2. (UK) A room in a university where snacks are sold.

Etymology 2

From butter +‎ -y.

Adjective

buttery (comparative butterier, superlative butteriest)

1. Made with or tasting of butter.

   The buttery-tasting cookie was actually made with margarine, but you couldn't tell by tasting it.

2. Resembling butter in some way.

   The old paper was a buttery color you no longer get.

Derived terms

• butteriness

Translations

made with or tasting of butter

• Catalan: mantegós (ca)

• Spanish: mantecoso (es)