buttery : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: buttery	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for buttery
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
buttery adj 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"; "soapy compliments" Synonym(s): buttery, fulsome, oily, oleaginous, smarmy, soapy, unctuous resembling or containing or spread with butter; "a rich buttery cake" n a small storeroom for storing foods or wines [syn: pantry, larder, buttery] a teashop where students in British universities can purchase light meals
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Buttery \But"ter*y\, a. Having the qualities, consistence, or appearance, of butter.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Buttery \But"tery\, 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.