buttery

adj

Etymology: 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.

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.”

   “While the European pear is, at its finest, buttery and surrenders to the slightest pressure, Asian pears are firm, very crisp, hugely juicy and sweet and, in some cases, highly aromatic – spicy almost.”

3. Marked by insincere flattery; obsequious.

   “He'll be nothing but enraptured with your buttery words .”

   “Dawson, for one, is on the right wavelength, goosing his buttery game-show host persona into a caricature of unctuous evil.”

4. Ellipsis of buttery smooth.

   “(see title)”

   “These include improved textures and character models plus a new buttery frame rate as the game gets boosted to 1080p resolution and animation of 60 frames per second. Stylish.”

name

1. A surname from Anglo-Norman.

noun

Etymology: 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.

1. A room for keeping food or beverages; a storeroom.

   “‘This is the storehouse and buttery of my company of the Guard,’”

   “Pretty Pia from the buttery was a slut who was working her way through every knight in the castle.”

2. A room in a university where snacks are sold.