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Buttery

Containing or spread with butter.

Butter

Butter is a dairy product made from the fat and protein components of churned cream. It is a semi-solid emulsion at room temperature, consisting of approximately 80% butterfat.

Buttery

Like or resembling butter.

Butter

A pale yellow edible fatty substance made by churning cream and used as a spread or in cooking.

Buttery

Marked by effusive and insincere flattery.

Butter

Spread (something) with butter
Lily buttered a slice of toast
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Buttery

A room in which liquors are stored.

Butter

A soft yellowish or whitish emulsion of butterfat, water, air, and sometimes salt, churned from milk or cream and processed for use in cooking and as a food.

Buttery

Chiefly British A place in colleges and universities where students may buy provisions.

Butter

A spread made from fruit, nuts, or other foods
Plum butter.
Cashew butter.

Buttery

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

Butter

A vegetable fat having a nearly solid consistency at ordinary temperatures.
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Buttery

Resembling butter in some way, such as yellow color or smooth texture.
The old paper was a buttery color you no longer get.

Butter

Flattery.

Buttery

(informal) Marked by insincere flattery; obsequious.

Butter

To put butter on or in.

Buttery

A room for keeping food or beverages; a storeroom.

Butter

A soft, fatty foodstuff made by churning the cream of milk (generally cow's milk).

Buttery

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

Butter

Any of various foodstuffs made from other foods or oils, similar in consistency to, eaten like or intended as a substitute for butter (preceded by the name of the food used to make it).
Peanut butter
Soy butter
Chocolate butter

Buttery

Having the qualities, consistence, or appearance, of butter.

Butter

Any of various substances made from other (especially plant-based) oils or fats, used in moisturizers, cosmetics, etc.

Buttery

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.

Butter

Any specific soft substance.
Butter of antimony; butter of arsenic

Buttery

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.

Butter

A smooth plane landing.

Buttery

A cellar in which butts of wine are kept.

Butter

Someone who butts, or who butts in.

Buttery

A small storeroom for storing foods or wines

Butter

(transitive) To spread butter on.
Butter the toast.

Buttery

A teashop where students in British universities can purchase light meals

Butter

To move one's weight backwards or forwards onto the tips or tails of one's skis or snowboard so only the tip or tail is in contact with the snow. Similar to applying butter to bread with then end of a butterknife.

Buttery

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

Butter

To spin on skis or a snowboard using only the tips or tails being in contact with the snow

Buttery

Resembling or containing or spread with butter;
A rich buttery cake

Butter

To increase (stakes) at every throw of dice, or every game.

Butter

Very smooth, very soft
That landing was total butter!

Butter

An oily, unctuous substance obtained from cream or milk by churning.

Butter

Any substance resembling butter in degree of consistence, or other qualities, especially, in old chemistry, the chlorides, as butter of antimony, sesquichloride of antimony; also, certain concrete fat oils remaining nearly solid at ordinary temperatures, as butter of cacao, vegetable butter, shea butter.

Butter

One who, or that which, butts.

Butter

To cover or spread with butter.
I know what's what. I know on which sideMy bread is buttered.

Butter

To increase, as stakes, at every throw or every game.

Butter

An edible emulsion of fat globules made by churning milk or cream; for cooking and table use

Butter

A fighter who strikes the opponent with his head

Butter

Spread butter on;
Butter bread

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