BUTTERY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does buttery mean? 

• BUTTERY (noun)
  The noun BUTTERY has 2 senses:

1. a small storeroom for storing foods or wines

2. a teashop where students in British universities can purchase light meals

  Familiarity information: BUTTERY used as a noun is rare.

• BUTTERY (adjective)
  The adjective BUTTERY has 2 senses:

1. unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech

2. resembling or containing or spread with butter

  Familiarity information: BUTTERY used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BUTTERY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A small storeroom for storing foods or wines

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

buttery; larder; pantry

Hypernyms ("buttery" is a kind of...):

storage room; storeroom; stowage (a room in which things are stored)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "buttery"):

still room; stillroom (a pantry or storeroom connected with the kitchen (especially in a large house) for preparing tea and beverages and for storing liquors and preserves and tea etc)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A teashop where students in British universities can purchase light meals

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("buttery" is a kind of...):

tea parlor; tea parlour; teahouse; tearoom; teashop (a restaurant where tea and light meals are available)

• BUTTERY (adjective)

Comparative: butterier   
Superlative: butteriest   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech

Synonyms:

buttery; fulsome; oily; oleaginous; smarmy; soapy; unctuous

Context example:

soapy compliments

Similar:

insincere (lacking sincerity)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Resembling or containing or spread with butter

Context example:

a rich buttery cake

Similar:

fat; fatty (containing or composed of fat)

Derivation:

butter (an edible emulsion of fat globules made by churning milk or cream; for cooking and table use)

 Context examples 

But there are ale, mead, and wine in the buttery, and the steward a merry rogue, who will not haggle over a quart or two.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And, what is more, said Hordle John, suddenly appearing out of the buttery with the huge board upon which the pastry was rolled, if either raise sword I shall flatten him like a Shrovetide pancake.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Sir Nigel and his lady walked on in deep talk, while a fat under-steward took charge of the three comrades, and led them to the buttery, where beef, bread, and beer were kept ever in readiness for the wayfarer.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)