buttery

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈbʌtəɹi/|/ˈbʌtɹi/    美 /ˈbʌt(ə)ɹi/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A rowie. Scotland
    — "We used to make 50 tins of butteries just for our Saturday trade, now it's about 20 tins, se we've seen a real shift which we've put down to an increased focus on health."
  2. A room for keeping food or beverages; a storeroom.
    — ‘This is the storehouse and buttery of my company of the Guard,’
  3. A room in a university where snacks are sold. UK
形容词 adj.
  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, such as yellow color or smooth texture.
    — The old paper was a buttery color you no longer get.
  3. Marked by insincere flattery; obsequious. informal
    — He'll be nothing but enraptured with your buttery words .
  4. Ellipsis of buttery smooth. abbreviation,alt-of,ellipsis
    — (see title)

词形变化

butterier comparative butteriest superlative butteries plural butteries plural

词汇关系

近义词
butterish butterlike butyraceous butyric
衍生词
butteriness buttery bar buttery hatch kiss-her-in-the-buttery
相关词
peanut-buttery nothing-buttery

词源

词源 1
From Middle English buttry, equivalent to butter + -y. Piecewise doublet of butyric, butter ultimately being from Latin būtȳrum and -y being a doublet of -ic.
词源 2
From Middle English boterie, from Old French boterie and Medieval Latin buteria, from Late Latin botāria, from a variant form of butta (“cask, bottle”). The form was probably influenced by butter.
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