Buttery word meaning and definition
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Meaning and definition for "buttery" word
[noun] a small storeroom for storing foods or wines
[adjective] resembling or containing or spread with butter; "a rich buttery cake"
[adjective] 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"
\But"ter*y\, n.; pl. {Butteries}. [OE. botery, botry; cf. LL. botaria wine vessel; also OE. botelerie, fr. F. bouteillerie, fr. boutellie bottle. Not derived from butter. See {Bottle} a hollow vessel, {Butt} a cask.] 1. 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. --Sir H. Wotton. 2. 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. --E. Hall. 3. A cellar in which butts of wine are kept. --Weale. {Buttery hatch}, a half door between the buttery or kitchen and the hall, in old mansions, over which provisions were passed. --Wright.
Synonyms for buttery
fat, fatty, fulsome, insincere, larder, oily, oleaginous, pantry, smarmy, unctuous
See also: still room | stillroom | storage room | storeroom | stowage | tea parlor | tea parlour | teahouse | tearoom | teashop |
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Let's analyse "buttery" as pure text. This string has Seven letters in Three syllables and Two vowels (In our algorithm Y is not counted as vowel, but in English language, sometimes it sounds like one). 28.6% of vowels is 10% less then average English word. Written in backwards: YRETTUB. Average typing speed for these characters is 1795 milliseconds. [info]
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Numerology Hearts desire number calculated from vowels:
buttery: 3 + 5 = 8, reduced: 8 (or 6 if Y is vowel too). and the final result is Eight. |
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