buttery
Meanings
Adjective
- Made with or tasting of butter.
- Resembling butter in some way, such as color or texture.
- Marked by insincere flattery; obsequious.
Noun
- A room for keeping food or beverages; a storeroom.
- A room in a university where snacks are sold.
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Origin
- From Middle English buttry, equivalent to butter + -y. , butter ultimately being from Latin būtȳrum and -y being a doublet of -ic.
- From Middle English boterie, from Old French boterie and Medieval Latin buteria, from Late Latin botāria, from a variant form of butta. The form was probably influenced by butter.
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