butteryn.¹

Brit.

/ˈbʌt(ə)ri/, U.S.

/ˈbədəri/

Forms: Middle English boterey, Middle English boteri, Middle English boterie, Middle English boterye, Middle English botre, Middle English botrie, Middle English bottre, Middle English bottry, Middle English–1500s botry, Middle English–1500s bottrye, Middle English–1500s buttre, Middle English–1600s botery, Middle English–1600s buterie, Middle English 1600s butry, Middle English–1600s butterye, Middle English–1600s buttrey, Middle English–1600s buttrie, Middle English–1700s (1900s– U.S. regional) buttry, Middle English– buttery, 1500s botorre, 1500s botrye, 1500s buttere, 1500s–1600s butterie, 1500s–1600s buttrye, 1500s–1700s butery, 1600s bootare, 1600s bottery, 1600s boutery; also Scottish pre-1700 butre, pre-1700 butterie, pre-1700 buttri, pre-1700 buttry.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Partly a borrowing from French. Etymons: French boterie, Latin buteria.

Etymology: < (i) Anglo-Norman boterie, boterei, botrie, buterie, butteri (1374 or earlier), and its etymon (ii) post-classical Latin buteria, buttaria (frequently from 12th cent. in British sources) < butta cask, bottle (see butt n.⁴) + -ria -ry suffix. The broadening in meaning from ‘storeroom for alcoholic drink’ to ‘storeroom for provisions generally’ is unsurprising, but may have been helped by association with (etymologically unrelated) butter n.¹Earlier uses as a surname (as e.g. Willielmus Buteri, 1205) probably reflect earlier currency of the Anglo-Norman rather than the Middle English word.

1. A storeroom for provisions, esp. ale and other alcoholic drinks; a pantry, a larder. Now historical and regional.

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the world > food and drink > drink > manufacture of alcoholic drink > [noun] > storage place

butteryc1384

vault1500

c1384 in R. W. Chambers & M. Daunt Bk. London Eng. (1931) 231 (MED) Richard Wyllesdon Schall..do byld..A parlour, kychyn, And boterye, As to Sych A Hall Schulde long.

1389 in J. T. Smith & L. T. Smith Eng. Gilds (1870) 98 Who-so entre in-to ye boteri yer ye ale lytȝ.

1411 in F. J. Furnivall Fifty Earliest Eng. Wills (1882) 18 (MED) Y beqweythe to lucye my wyfe all my store..in Pantrie and Botrie, in larder and Kechyn.

?1459 M. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 257 Sume man..to kepe your botry, for the mane that ye lefte..seyth he hath not vsyd to geve a rekenyng nothyre of bred nor alle tyll at the wekys end.

a1500 (?a1425) Ipomedon (Harl.) (1889) l. 316 And to þe botery he went anon..He toke þe cuppe of þe botelere.

1540 J. Palsgrave tr. G. Gnapheus Comedye of Acolastus sig. Qiii If we..bring out of (the buttery) or spence all the meate that is left.

1587 J. Hooker Chron. Ireland 138/1 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) II His cellar doore was neuer shut, & his butterie alwaies open, to all commers of anie credit.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) Induct. i. 100 Take them to the Butterie, And giue them friendly welcome euerie one.

1665 S. Pepys Diary 3 Aug. (1972) VI. 180 Then down to the buttery and eat a piece of cold venison-pie.

1718 Weekly Jamaica Courant 30 July A very good House with..Buttery, Two Steward-Rooms, and a large Store-House.

1755 T. Smollett tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote I. iii. v. 108 For, in their bags, they had lost their whole buttery and provision.

1770 ‘Orphanotrophian’ Fortunate Blue-coat Boy I. sig. M2^v They fetch the beer from the buttery in leathern jacks, and serve it out to the rest of the boys at their meals.

1826 W. Scott Woodstock I. ii. 34 When the pantry has no bread and the buttery no ale.

1878 W. Stubbs Constit. Hist. III. xxi. 531 Regular officers of the buttery, the kitchen..and the like.

1879 E. Waugh Chimney Corner 186 Hud (hide) thisel' i'th' buttery, theer, till hoo's gone!

1922 D. L. Cady Rhymes Vermont Rural Life 2nd Ser. 81 Your wife the whole affair has seen Behind the buttery winder screen.

1949 V. S. Reid New Day i. xxxi. 155 But it is good to hear her laugh and watch how she is walking quick-quick to the buttery to find provender.

2015 K. Skelton Paradox of Body, Building & Motion 17th-cent. Eng. ii. 22 Those of lower social rank were simply given food and drink in the small buttery to the side of the great hall.

2. At certain universities, esp. Oxford and Cambridge: a place on university premises where students may buy food, drink, and other provisions; (now) esp. (the name of) a shop, cafe, or bar in a university college. See also buttery book n. at Compounds.

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the world > food and drink > food > place for storing food > [noun] > for bread and butter

buttery1579

panary1611

1579 in J. Heywood & T. Wright Cambr. Univ. Trans. during Puritan Controversies (1854) I. 238 Deponit, that Mr. Tracy comyng into the buttery, where he found Mr. Boothe and thys deponent, did charge this deponent that he could not suffer Mr. Boothe to syse.

1617 J. Minsheu Ἡγεμὼν είς τὰς γλῶσσας: Ductor in Linguas at Size A size is a portion of bread and drinke: it is a farthing which schollers in Cambridge have at the buttery.

1684 London Gaz. No. 1910. 4 Whoever gives notice of him either at the Buttery of Christchurch to the Butler, etc.

1688 J. Jones Tripos ii, in J. Barrett Ess. Earlier Life Swift (1808) 58 But [the College Steward is] always sworn brother in iniquity to the clerks of the buttery.

1710 S. Palmer Moral Ess. Prov. 210 To converse in the world requir'd somewhat more than to have heard a little talk about Aristotle and Cartes, or to have ones name in the butteries.

1762 R. Lloyd in St. James's Mag. Nov. 215 Some copy with prodigious skill The figures of a buttery-bill.

1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue Sizings, Cambridge term for the college allowance from the buttery, called at Oxford battles.

1850 C. Kingsley Alton Locke I. xii. 189 I'll send you in luncheon as I go through the butteries.

1869 J. E. T. Rogers in A. Smith Inq. Wealth Nations (new ed.) I. Pref. 7 During this time he drew his commons from the college buttery.

1891 H. Rashdall in A. Clark Colleges Oxf. 156 It became usual for men to go to the buttery for a hunk of bread and a pot of beer.

1921 Harvard Alumni Bull. 5 May 694/1 He was a sort of major domo, not only lording it in the buttery and cellars, but serving as head janitor.

1926 A. L. Rowse Diary 24 Feb. (2003) 10 Old Arthur Johnson in the buttery last Wednesday held forth on the difficulty of approaching Edgeworth.

1977 M. Frayn Donkeys' Years iii. 65 I'm going down to the Buttery to get cornflakes, and a tin of coffee, and a jar of Cooper's Oxford marmalade.

2012 @vmrampulla 22 Aug. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) I last saw him in Balliol's Buttery in June. He was an institution himself.

2017 @YaleUGA 9 Nov. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) Every residential college has its own common room, library, dining hall, buttery, gym, and further specialized amenities.

Phrases

† the spirit (also sprite) of the buttery: used allusively to refer to intoxicating liquor. Obsolete.

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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > wine > [noun]

wine805

juicea1387

shrab1477

Bacchus1508

the spirit (also sprite) of the buttery1530

Lyaeus1602

vintage1604

Septembral juice (or liquor)1609

grape1636

cellar physic1697

rosy1840

pluck1904

pinard1917

vino1919

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 591 I wene he be inspyred with the spyrites of the buttery.

1547 A. Borde Breuiary of Helthe i. f. lxxv^v I shulde haue sayd afrayde of the spirite of the buttry, which be perylous beestes, for such spirites doth troble a man so sore that he can nat diuers tymes stande vpon his legges.

1593 G. Harvey Pierces Supererogation 15 His frisking penne began to playe the Sprite of the buttry.

1660 J. Trapp Comm. Holy Script. (Canticles ii. 1) 330 It appears by your communication, that you are better acquainted with the spirit of the buttery, than of God.

Compounds

buttery bar n. now rare a ledge or shelf at a buttery hatch on which drinks may be rested.

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the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > drinking place > [noun] > tavern or public house > beer- or ale-house > beer bar or bench

alebenchOE

buttery bar1533

1533 King Henry VIII Let. 16 July in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1824) 1st Ser. II. 31 A Gallon of Ale at our Buttrye barr; and half a Galon of Wyne at our Seller Barr.

1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. ccxvi^v The Maior of Oxford kept the buttry barre.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) i. iii. 67 I pray you bring your hand to'th Buttry barre, and let it drinke.

1820 W. Scott Abbot II. iii. 67 ‘Mend your draught’..‘I know the way to the buttery-bar.’

1945 Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. 35 14/1 Swarms of boys and minor servants loitered at the buttery bar and forced their way into the kitchens.

buttery book n. now historical (at certain universities, esp. Oxford and Cambridge) a book in which the names of the members of a college are entered and a record kept of the money each owes to the buttery.At Oxford and Cambridge buttery books served as proof that a student had been resident in college for the requisite number of days each term. A cross against a student's name in the buttery meant that he was unable to receive food or prove that he had been resident in college on that day (see cross v. 4b).

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society > education > educational administration > university administration > [noun] > accounts

buttery book1583

battel1706

gate-bill1803

1583 W. Stoughton Abstr. Certain Acts Parl. 233 Since the departure of which man, if the Audite or butterie bookes of that house were sought, you shall finde hir schollers names, written alwayes in the latter ende of the booke.

a1672 A. Wood Life (1848) 34 Munday he was entred into the buttery-book..by Mr. Edw. Copley, fellow of that house.

1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 19. ⁋2 There are of the Middle-Temple, including all in the Buttery Books, and in the Lists of the House, 5000.

1726 N. Amhurst Terræ-filius (ed. 2) xxxix. 214 The Master of the college sent his servitor to the buttery-book to sconce him five shillings.

1832 Dr. Hall in J. Boswell Life S. Johnson (new ed.) I. 46 (note) Weekly account in the buttery books.

1934 Mod. Lang. Notes 49 328 This John Dryden was admitted fellow in January, and stricken from the college Buttery Book after the revolution.

2006 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 6 Apr. 43/1 The college's Buttery Books—ledgers in which weekly charges for food and drink were recorded—survive for much of this period.

buttery door n. the door of a buttery.

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1423 in R. W. Chambers & M. Daunt Bk. London Eng. (1931) 175 (MED) Paied for an newe keye to þe botrie dore, iij d.

1550 J. Heywood Hundred Epigrammes xxviii. sig. Cii Thy butterie doore I heare not creake.

1648 Case for City-spectacles 6 He speaks like the hinges of a starv'd buttery doore that whines for grease.

1785 R. Cumberland Nat. Son i. 18 We will have a batch at backgammon, to while away the time till David gives the signal on the buttery-door.

1857 T. Hughes Tom Brown's School Days i. vi. 143 Bill pounced on the big table, and began to rattle it away to its place outside the buttery-door.

1920 Our Dumb Animals Aug. 47/1 He would notify her that he was hungry by giving his queer little bark at the buttery door.

2002 E. Haydon Requiem for Sun (2003) 8 Who would expect the Lady Cymrian, dressed in peasant garb, unguarded, at the buttery door in the middle of the night?

buttery hatch n. an opening in the wall, or above the half-door, of a buttery at which drinks and other provisions are served.

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the world > food and drink > food > serving food > [noun] > utensils for serving > serving-hatch

buttery hatcha1566

slidec1608

kitchen hatch1734

serving hatch1879

pass-through1958

servery1960

a1566 R. Edwards Damon & Pithias (1571) sig. Fj^v At Bake house, Buttrie hatch, Kitchin, and Seller.

1598 Mucedorus sig. B4 To the buttery hatch, to Thomas the butler, for a iacke of beare.

1614 T. Adams Diuells Banket v. 207 Hee will turne one of his cast Seruitours..from the Buttry-hatch to the Pulpit.

1737 London Mag. Apr. 211/2 At the knock of the buttery-hatch, The rosy-gill'd chaplain comes down.

1845 B. Disraeli Sybil I. ii. i. 96 A hall..with the dais, the screen, the gallery, and the buttery-hatch all perfect.

1903 Burlington Mag. Apr. 206/2 Bouts has represented..his two sons looking in at the buttery hatch.

1999 Western Daily Press (Nexis) 30 Oct. 17 The flagstoned floor hall has two ‘buttery hatches’.

† buttery-worn adj. Obsolete (of a person's body) worn out as a result of time spent in a college buttery.Apparently an isolated use.

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1885 Macmillan's Mag. Nov. 28/1 Even the old scouts who come grinning up to him—mines of inconvenient memories, old, battered, buttery-worn bodies—have a grace about them.

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butteryn.²

Brit.

/ˈbʌt(ə)ri/, U.S.

/ˈbədəri/, Scottish English

/ˈbʌtərɪ/

Forms: 1800s– buttery, 1900s– butterie.

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: buttery adj.

Etymology: < buttery adj. Compare also -y suffix⁶.

Scottish regional (north-eastern).

A flaky, relatively flat bread roll, traditionally made with lard and butter.The precise meaning in quot. 1899 is unclear; it may refer to a type of butter biscuit instead.

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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > bread > loaf > [noun] > roll

roll1581

bapc1600

wreath1600

breadcake1635

French roll1652

cookie1701

sugar-roll1727

petit pain1766

souter's clod1773

twist1830

simit1836

bread roll1838

pistolet1853

flute1855

twist-loaf1856

Parker House roll1873

crescent roll1886

bagel1898

Kaiser roll1898

buttery1899

croissant1899

split1905

pan de sal1910

bridge roll1926

Kaiser1927

Kaiser bun1933

Bialystok roll1951

pletzel1952

panini1955

bialy1958

Bialystok1960

1899 Arbroath Guide 21 Oct. 3/5 Between butteries, Rob Roys an' turnovers..her basket was weel filled.

1917 Aberdeen Daily Jrnl. 27 Sept. 4/1 They did not want any concession, but wanted the baps and butteries sold as heretofore.

2015 @REALAndyGibson 10 July in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) Got a cuppa tea and a buttery to wake me up.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

butteryadj.

Brit.

/ˈbʌt(ə)ri/, U.S.

/ˈbədəri/

Forms: Middle English–1500s buttry, 1500s buttrie, 1600s– buttery.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: butter n.¹, -y suffix¹.

Etymology: < butter n.¹ + -y suffix¹.

a. Of the nature of butter; containing butter; having the rich, creamy flavour of butter.

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the world > food and drink > food > dairy produce > butter > [adjective]

butterya1398

butterish1542

butyraceous1669

butyrous1682

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xix. lxv. 1328 Kow mylk is..lasse scharp and more buttry [L. butirosum].

1584 T. Cogan Hauen of Health cxciv. 155 Because it [sc. milk] is buttrie, it..is good against pricking paynes of the Lungs.

1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 418 His fatty and buttery part is hotter then the whole body of the milke.

1668 N. Culpeper & A. Cole tr. T. Bartholin Anat. (new ed.) i. i. 4/2 It resembles the buttery substance of Milk.

1737 J. Byrom Jrnl. 22 Apr. in Private Jrnl. & Lit. Remains (1856) II. i. 123 (transcript from orig. shorthand) Had a cheesecake..by the way, which..did not sit so easy, being buttery.

1859 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. V. 392/2 To increase the buttery constituent.

1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 867/1 They [sc. avocados] contain a large quantity of firm pulp possessing a buttery or marrow-like taste.

1943 M. Millar Wall of Eyes xvii. 216 The popcorn looked very buttery. You didn't often get really buttery popcorn any more.

1981 Bon Appétit May 104/1 Suppose you are planning a family-style Sunday dinner, complete with..buttery mashed potatoes.

2002 Nat. Health Oct. 118/1 A semisolid nonhydrogenated spread with a buttery smell and flavor.

2014 Good Housek. Apr. 207 (advt.) Delicious mini chocolate sandwich cakes with a hint of buttery caramel.

b. spec. Of wine: having a rich, creamy flavour or smoothness similar to that of butter.

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1979 Washington Post 3 June e1/3 [Chardonnay] can be light and crisp..or full-bodied, even ‘buttery’.

1991 O. Clarke Webster's Wine Guide 1992 185/1 White Rioja can be tremendously buttery and rich.

2015 B. Desautels Winesense ii. ii. 89 You'll find wine with a nuanced bouquet, buttery vanilla flavours, and long-lasting pleasant aftertastes.

a. Resembling butter in feel or consistency; soft, yielding. Also figurative.

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the world > matter > constitution of matter > softness > [adjective] > soft like specific thing or material

uddery1398

butteryc1450

carnose1562

silk-soft1570

downy1583

linty1607

flower-softa1616

lawny1615

unwoody1635

snow-like1663

pillowy1769

eider1789

puddingy1825

cushiony1839

sarcoid1841

cushioned1861

marshmallowy1993

the world > matter > constitution of matter > oiliness or greasiness > [adjective] > buttery

butteryc1450

butterish1542

butter-like1600

butyraceous1669

butyrous1682

c1450 in T. Austin Two 15th-cent. Cookery-bks. (1888) 75 (MED) Take faire nessh chese that is buttry..grynde hit in a morter.

1685 J. Chamberlayne tr. A. Colmenero de Ladesma Treat. Chocolate iv, in P. S. Dufour Manner of making Coffee, Tea, & Chocolate 115 I affirm however that the great quantity of buttery parts, which I have proved to be in the Cacao, are those which fatten.

1719 G. London & H. Wise J. de la Quintinie's Compl. Gard'ner (ed. 7) 61 Its Pulp tender, but not buttery.

1803 W. Forsyth Treat. Fruit-trees (ed. 2) vii. 142 The flesh..melting and buttery.

1847 J. A. Clarke in Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 8 i. 91 The same buttery clay may be found above a stratum of moor.

c1865 H. Letheby in J. Wylde Circle of Sci. I. 95/1 The oil has a buttery consistence.

1868 F. E. Paget Lucretia 281 His buttery heart.

1898 C. Salter tr. L. A. Andés Animal Fats 204 It forms a mass of buttery or salve-like consistency.

1949 H. W. C. Vines Green's Man. Pathol. (ed. 17) xvi. 431 The cyst is filled by a buttery yellowish mass of sebaceous secretion.

1984 C. Phillips in Everyday Matters 2 48 Mike, the technician, had given her some particularly buttery clay.

2006 Lush Times Spring 30/4 Lovely softening buttery lip balm that, unsurprisingly, is scented/flavoured with lime.

b. Resembling butter in colour; of any of various shades from soft to bright yellow.

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1865 Vermont Chron. 7 Jan. 6/1 Parting the hair to see the skin, it should have a buttery yellow or almost orange color.

1943 Poetry 62 133 She loves the buttery glow of candlelight.

1979 in J. Cleese & C. Booth Fawlty Towers (1988) 167 It's lovely, it's just a bit buttery with my skin.

2017 Daily News (N.Y.) (Nexis) 25 June (Sports Final ed.) (N.Y. Eats section) 52 When the melon's ripe, that part of the rind turns a buttery yellow color.

3. figurative. Of a person, or his or her manner or behaviour: given to or characterized by flattery; (excessively) smooth and ingratiating; unctuous. Cf. butter n.¹ 2b.

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the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > flattery or flattering > [adjective]

ficklinga1240

glozing1297

blandingc1315

blandishingc1374

glaveringc1394

fleering?a1400

sleekedc1400

faginga1425

smoothc1450

flattering1484

cogging1542

flatterous1546

butterya1585

smooth-tongueda1593

oily1598

silken1598

slick-tongued1598

soothing1599

sleek1601

slick1606

blandiloquous1615

supellectile1615

colloguing1620

losengeous1632

oiled-tongued1632

daubing1655

blandiloquious1689

smooth-booted1706

palavering1764

pill-gilding1764

oily-tongued1788

buttering1789

sleeky1810

smooth-spoken1821

oleaginous1833

butteraceous1837

saponaceous1837

soft-soapy1849

soapy1854

blarneying1884

smarmy1924

sweet-talking1956

smoothie1959

smarming1970

blandiloquent-

a1585 P. Hume Flyting with Montgomerie (Tullibardine) ix. 64 in Poems A. Montgomerie (2000) I. 174 Buttrie bag, fill the knag, þow will wag with the morrowis, Coyd clatterer, skin batterer, and flatterer of freindis.

1842 Tait's Edinb. Mag. Nov. 725/1 With the Germans and Italians she is charitable, liberal, indulgent, honeyed; nay, with very particular noble favourites, almost buttery.

1878 Judy 5 June 344/1 There is nothing at all of a buttery expression, so to speak, about the landlady's face as she asks me what is the matter, and whether I have anything to complain of.

1902 Black & White Budget 12 July 508/2 ‘My dear sir,’ replied the grocer wi' a bland an' buttery smile, ‘ther's bin no deception.’

1919 C. B. Hawes Mutineers (1920) xxv. 208 The dirty villain would have us hanged at the nearest gallows for all his buttery words.

1996 A. Kazin Lifetime Burning in Every Moment 91 Manner usually buttery, confiding, intellectual; in repose, the coldness of a Nazi officer in full charge of the situation.

2004 S. Mehta Maximum City 358 When I was working in Dubai I was the boss; now I have to say ‘sir, sir’. For a struggler, this is the rule of life: you have to be very buttery.

4. Smeared with butter.

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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > garnishing > [adjective] > spread with butter or margarine

well-butteredeOE

buttered1496

buttery1747

margarined1924

1747 H. Glasse Art of Cookery i. 5 Rub it over with a buttery Cloth.

1822 London Mag. Feb. 168/2 There they clung with their round, crumby, rosy cheeks, and plump buttery fingers.

1878 H. H. Jackson Nelly's Silver Mine xiv. 350 Pray excuse me a minute, till I can take myself out of this buttery apron.

1914 M. Lynn Stepdaughter of Prairie 243 She rubbed her nose with the back of her hand and eyed him above her buttery fingers.

1956 G. Durrell My Family & Other Animals (1965) xviii. 283 A layer of butter had been spread over the side plates, and buttery footprints wandered to and fro across the cloth.

2001 Guardian 10 Aug. (G2 section) 6 Thrusting one's buttery knife in the Marmite is a putrid error.

5. Of sound, music, a voice, etc.: mellow, smooth, and pleasant.

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1864 Peterson's Mag. Jan. 44/1 If mother's loud, buttery voice had a sharp twang about it sometimes, it did not last long.

1944 J. S. Huxley On Living in Revol. viii. 91 He was rather a small man with a strange, rather buttery sort of quality in his voice.

1983 Guardian 10 Feb. (Arts section) 12/7 In his solo he just shuffled a handful of soft, buttery notes, but it sounded like a symphony.

1995 New Yorker 27 Mar. 18/3 The thread that holds it together is his buttery guitar, a burbling purr that remains one of the most instantly identifiable voices in contemporary music.

2015 Erie (Pa.) Times-News (Nexis) 25 June The Suffers, a 10-piece, horn-heavy Houston band that plays buttery soul, funk and jazz with a heavy '70s influence.

Compounds

† buttery Benjie n. Scottish slang Obsolete (at some Scottish universities) a first-year student; = bejan n.

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society > education > learning > learner > college or university student > [noun] > first-year student

puny1548

freshman1583

puisne1592

freshwomana1627

bejan1642

nib1655

jib1827

greeny1834

fox1839

freshie1845

rat1850

buttery Benjie1854

pennal1854

yellow-beak1865

fresher1875

yellow-neb1879

yearling1908

frosh1915

1854 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 76 433/2 Why the word [sc. Bejant] should be corrupted into Benjie, and still more why he should be called a ‘Buttery benjie’, are etymological problems which we no more pretend to solve, than the reason why his fellow freshman at Heidelberg is called a Leathery fox.

buttery-fingered adj. having a tendency to let things fall or slip from one's hands; = butterfingered adj. 1.

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the world > action or operation > ability > inability > unskilfulness > [adjective] > clumsy or awkward > clumsy with the hands

handless1483

left-handed1579

butterfingered1615

heavy-handeda1634

thumbless1648

unhandy1669

mutton-fisted1737

two-fisted1774

numb-handed1849

butterfingers1851

buttery-fingered1853

cack-handed1854

Marlborough-handed1893

thumb-fingered1903

thumby1909

ham-handed1918

ham-fisted1928

1853 C. Reade Peg Woffington i. 25 All the ladies and gentlemen..whom the buttery-fingered author could not keep in hand until the fall of the curtain.

1917 Photo-era Aug. 81/1 When buttery-fingered people like us get infected with the photographic germ, while learning they are apt to smash everything breakable from trays and negatives to their own bank-accounts and hearts.

2011 Sunday Herald Sun (Austral.) (Nexis) 10 July 71 A bunch of buttery-fingered backs who couldn't hold on to the ball.

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n.¹c1384

n.²1899

adj.a1398

单词	buttery
释义	butteryn.¹ Brit. /ˈbʌt(ə)ri/, U.S. /ˈbədəri/ Forms: Middle English boterey, Middle English boteri, Middle English boterie, Middle English boterye, Middle English botre, Middle English botrie, Middle English bottre, Middle English bottry, Middle English–1500s botry, Middle English–1500s bottrye, Middle English–1500s buttre, Middle English–1600s botery, Middle English–1600s buterie, Middle English 1600s butry, Middle English–1600s butterye, Middle English–1600s buttrey, Middle English–1600s buttrie, Middle English–1700s (1900s– U.S. regional) buttry, Middle English– buttery, 1500s botorre, 1500s botrye, 1500s buttere, 1500s–1600s butterie, 1500s–1600s buttrye, 1500s–1700s butery, 1600s bootare, 1600s bottery, 1600s boutery; also Scottish pre-1700 butre, pre-1700 butterie, pre-1700 buttri, pre-1700 buttry. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Partly a borrowing from French. Etymons: French boterie, Latin buteria. Etymology: < (i) Anglo-Norman boterie, boterei, botrie, buterie, butteri (1374 or earlier), and its etymon (ii) post-classical Latin buteria, buttaria (frequently from 12th cent. in British sources) < butta cask, bottle (see butt n.⁴) + -ria -ry suffix. The broadening in meaning from ‘storeroom for alcoholic drink’ to ‘storeroom for provisions generally’ is unsurprising, but may have been helped by association with (etymologically unrelated) butter n.¹Earlier uses as a surname (as e.g. Willielmus Buteri, 1205) probably reflect earlier currency of the Anglo-Norman rather than the Middle English word. 1. A storeroom for provisions, esp. ale and other alcoholic drinks; a pantry, a larder. Now historical and regional. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > manufacture of alcoholic drink > [noun] > storage place butteryc1384 vault1500 c1384 in R. W. Chambers & M. Daunt Bk. London Eng. (1931) 231 (MED) Richard Wyllesdon Schall..do byld..A parlour, kychyn, And boterye, As to Sych A Hall Schulde long. 1389 in J. T. Smith & L. T. Smith Eng. Gilds (1870) 98 Who-so entre in-to ye boteri yer ye ale lytȝ. 1411 in F. J. Furnivall Fifty Earliest Eng. Wills (1882) 18 (MED) Y beqweythe to lucye my wyfe all my store..in Pantrie and Botrie, in larder and Kechyn. ?1459 M. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 257 Sume man..to kepe your botry, for the mane that ye lefte..seyth he hath not vsyd to geve a rekenyng nothyre of bred nor alle tyll at the wekys end. a1500 (?a1425) Ipomedon (Harl.) (1889) l. 316 And to þe botery he went anon..He toke þe cuppe of þe botelere. 1540 J. Palsgrave tr. G. Gnapheus Comedye of Acolastus sig. Qiii If we..bring out of (the buttery) or spence all the meate that is left. 1587 J. Hooker Chron. Ireland 138/1 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) II His cellar doore was neuer shut, & his butterie alwaies open, to all commers of anie credit. a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) Induct. i. 100 Take them to the Butterie, And giue them friendly welcome euerie one. View more context for this quotation 1665 S. Pepys Diary 3 Aug. (1972) VI. 180 Then down to the buttery and eat a piece of cold venison-pie. 1718 Weekly Jamaica Courant 30 July A very good House with..Buttery, Two Steward-Rooms, and a large Store-House. 1755 T. Smollett tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote I. iii. v. 108 For, in their bags, they had lost their whole buttery and provision. 1770 ‘Orphanotrophian’ Fortunate Blue-coat Boy I. sig. M2^v They fetch the beer from the buttery in leathern jacks, and serve it out to the rest of the boys at their meals. 1826 W. Scott Woodstock I. ii. 34 When the pantry has no bread and the buttery no ale. 1878 W. Stubbs Constit. Hist. III. xxi. 531 Regular officers of the buttery, the kitchen..and the like. 1879 E. Waugh Chimney Corner 186 Hud (hide) thisel' i'th' buttery, theer, till hoo's gone! 1922 D. L. Cady Rhymes Vermont Rural Life 2nd Ser. 81 Your wife the whole affair has seen Behind the buttery winder screen. 1949 V. S. Reid New Day i. xxxi. 155 But it is good to hear her laugh and watch how she is walking quick-quick to the buttery to find provender. 2015 K. Skelton Paradox of Body, Building & Motion 17th-cent. Eng. ii. 22 Those of lower social rank were simply given food and drink in the small buttery to the side of the great hall. 2. At certain universities, esp. Oxford and Cambridge: a place on university premises where students may buy food, drink, and other provisions; (now) esp. (the name of) a shop, cafe, or bar in a university college. See also buttery book n. at Compounds. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > place for storing food > [noun] > for bread and butter buttery1579 panary1611 1579 in J. Heywood & T. Wright Cambr. Univ. Trans. during Puritan Controversies (1854) I. 238 Deponit, that Mr. Tracy comyng into the buttery, where he found Mr. Boothe and thys deponent, did charge this deponent that he could not suffer Mr. Boothe to syse. 1617 J. Minsheu Ἡγεμὼν είς τὰς γλῶσσας: Ductor in Linguas at Size A size is a portion of bread and drinke: it is a farthing which schollers in Cambridge have at the buttery. 1684 London Gaz. No. 1910. 4 Whoever gives notice of him either at the Buttery of Christchurch to the Butler, etc. 1688 J. Jones Tripos ii, in J. Barrett Ess. Earlier Life Swift (1808) 58 But [the College Steward is] always sworn brother in iniquity to the clerks of the buttery. 1710 S. Palmer Moral Ess. Prov. 210 To converse in the world requir'd somewhat more than to have heard a little talk about Aristotle and Cartes, or to have ones name in the butteries. 1762 R. Lloyd in St. James's Mag. Nov. 215 Some copy with prodigious skill The figures of a buttery-bill. 1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue Sizings, Cambridge term for the college allowance from the buttery, called at Oxford battles. 1850 C. Kingsley Alton Locke I. xii. 189 I'll send you in luncheon as I go through the butteries. 1869 J. E. T. Rogers in A. Smith Inq. Wealth Nations (new ed.) I. Pref. 7 During this time he drew his commons from the college buttery. 1891 H. Rashdall in A. Clark Colleges Oxf. 156 It became usual for men to go to the buttery for a hunk of bread and a pot of beer. 1921 Harvard Alumni Bull. 5 May 694/1 He was a sort of major domo, not only lording it in the buttery and cellars, but serving as head janitor. 1926 A. L. Rowse Diary 24 Feb. (2003) 10 Old Arthur Johnson in the buttery last Wednesday held forth on the difficulty of approaching Edgeworth. 1977 M. Frayn Donkeys' Years iii. 65 I'm going down to the Buttery to get cornflakes, and a tin of coffee, and a jar of Cooper's Oxford marmalade. 2012 @vmrampulla 22 Aug. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) I last saw him in Balliol's Buttery in June. He was an institution himself. 2017 @YaleUGA 9 Nov. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) Every residential college has its own common room, library, dining hall, buttery, gym, and further specialized amenities. Phrases † the spirit (also sprite) of the buttery: used allusively to refer to intoxicating liquor. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > wine > [noun] wine805 juicea1387 shrab1477 Bacchus1508 the spirit (also sprite) of the buttery1530 Lyaeus1602 vintage1604 Septembral juice (or liquor)1609 grape1636 cellar physic1697 rosy1840 pluck1904 pinard1917 vino1919 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 591 I wene he be inspyred with the spyrites of the buttery. 1547 A. Borde Breuiary of Helthe i. f. lxxv^v I shulde haue sayd afrayde of the spirite of the buttry, which be perylous beestes, for such spirites doth troble a man so sore that he can nat diuers tymes stande vpon his legges. 1593 G. Harvey Pierces Supererogation 15 His frisking penne began to playe the Sprite of the buttry. 1660 J. Trapp Comm. Holy Script. (Canticles ii. 1) 330 It appears by your communication, that you are better acquainted with the spirit of the buttery, than of God. Compounds buttery bar n. now rare a ledge or shelf at a buttery hatch on which drinks may be rested. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > drinking place > [noun] > tavern or public house > beer- or ale-house > beer bar or bench alebenchOE buttery bar1533 1533 King Henry VIII Let. 16 July in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1824) 1st Ser. II. 31 A Gallon of Ale at our Buttrye barr; and half a Galon of Wyne at our Seller Barr. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. ccxvi^v The Maior of Oxford kept the buttry barre. a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) i. iii. 67 I pray you bring your hand to'th Buttry barre, and let it drinke. View more context for this quotation 1820 W. Scott Abbot II. iii. 67 ‘Mend your draught’..‘I know the way to the buttery-bar.’ 1945 Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. 35 14/1 Swarms of boys and minor servants loitered at the buttery bar and forced their way into the kitchens. buttery book n. now historical (at certain universities, esp. Oxford and Cambridge) a book in which the names of the members of a college are entered and a record kept of the money each owes to the buttery.At Oxford and Cambridge buttery books served as proof that a student had been resident in college for the requisite number of days each term. A cross against a student's name in the buttery meant that he was unable to receive food or prove that he had been resident in college on that day (see cross v. 4b). ΘΚΠ society > education > educational administration > university administration > [noun] > accounts buttery book1583 battel1706 gate-bill1803 1583 W. Stoughton Abstr. Certain Acts Parl. 233 Since the departure of which man, if the Audite or butterie bookes of that house were sought, you shall finde hir schollers names, written alwayes in the latter ende of the booke. a1672 A. Wood Life (1848) 34 Munday he was entred into the buttery-book..by Mr. Edw. Copley, fellow of that house. 1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 19. ⁋2 There are of the Middle-Temple, including all in the Buttery Books, and in the Lists of the House, 5000. 1726 N. Amhurst Terræ-filius (ed. 2) xxxix. 214 The Master of the college sent his servitor to the buttery-book to sconce him five shillings. 1832 Dr. Hall in J. Boswell Life S. Johnson (new ed.) I. 46 (note) Weekly account in the buttery books. 1934 Mod. Lang. Notes 49 328 This John Dryden was admitted fellow in January, and stricken from the college Buttery Book after the revolution. 2006 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 6 Apr. 43/1 The college's Buttery Books—ledgers in which weekly charges for food and drink were recorded—survive for much of this period. buttery door n. the door of a buttery. ΚΠ 1423 in R. W. Chambers & M. Daunt Bk. London Eng. (1931) 175 (MED) Paied for an newe keye to þe botrie dore, iij d. 1550 J. Heywood Hundred Epigrammes xxviii. sig. Cii Thy butterie doore I heare not creake. 1648 Case for City-spectacles 6 He speaks like the hinges of a starv'd buttery doore that whines for grease. 1785 R. Cumberland Nat. Son i. 18 We will have a batch at backgammon, to while away the time till David gives the signal on the buttery-door. 1857 T. Hughes Tom Brown's School Days i. vi. 143 Bill pounced on the big table, and began to rattle it away to its place outside the buttery-door. 1920 Our Dumb Animals Aug. 47/1 He would notify her that he was hungry by giving his queer little bark at the buttery door. 2002 E. Haydon Requiem for Sun (2003) 8 Who would expect the Lady Cymrian, dressed in peasant garb, unguarded, at the buttery door in the middle of the night? buttery hatch n. an opening in the wall, or above the half-door, of a buttery at which drinks and other provisions are served. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > serving food > [noun] > utensils for serving > serving-hatch buttery hatcha1566 slidec1608 kitchen hatch1734 serving hatch1879 pass-through1958 servery1960 a1566 R. Edwards Damon & Pithias (1571) sig. Fj^v At Bake house, Buttrie hatch, Kitchin, and Seller. 1598 Mucedorus sig. B4 To the buttery hatch, to Thomas the butler, for a iacke of beare. 1614 T. Adams Diuells Banket v. 207 Hee will turne one of his cast Seruitours..from the Buttry-hatch to the Pulpit. 1737 London Mag. Apr. 211/2 At the knock of the buttery-hatch, The rosy-gill'd chaplain comes down. 1845 B. Disraeli Sybil I. ii. i. 96 A hall..with the dais, the screen, the gallery, and the buttery-hatch all perfect. 1903 Burlington Mag. Apr. 206/2 Bouts has represented..his two sons looking in at the buttery hatch. 1999 Western Daily Press (Nexis) 30 Oct. 17 The flagstoned floor hall has two ‘buttery hatches’. † buttery-worn adj. Obsolete (of a person's body) worn out as a result of time spent in a college buttery.Apparently an isolated use. ΚΠ 1885 Macmillan's Mag. Nov. 28/1 Even the old scouts who come grinning up to him—mines of inconvenient memories, old, battered, buttery-worn bodies—have a grace about them. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021). butteryn.² Brit. /ˈbʌt(ə)ri/, U.S. /ˈbədəri/, Scottish English /ˈbʌtərɪ/ Forms: 1800s– buttery, 1900s– butterie. Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: buttery adj. Etymology: < buttery adj. Compare also -y suffix⁶. Scottish regional (north-eastern). A flaky, relatively flat bread roll, traditionally made with lard and butter.The precise meaning in quot. 1899 is unclear; it may refer to a type of butter biscuit instead. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > bread > loaf > [noun] > roll roll1581 bapc1600 wreath1600 breadcake1635 French roll1652 cookie1701 sugar-roll1727 petit pain1766 souter's clod1773 twist1830 simit1836 bread roll1838 pistolet1853 flute1855 twist-loaf1856 Parker House roll1873 crescent roll1886 bagel1898 Kaiser roll1898 buttery1899 croissant1899 split1905 pan de sal1910 bridge roll1926 Kaiser1927 Kaiser bun1933 Bialystok roll1951 pletzel1952 panini1955 bialy1958 Bialystok1960 1899 Arbroath Guide 21 Oct. 3/5 Between butteries, Rob Roys an' turnovers..her basket was weel filled. 1917 Aberdeen Daily Jrnl. 27 Sept. 4/1 They did not want any concession, but wanted the baps and butteries sold as heretofore. 2015 @REALAndyGibson 10 July in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) Got a cuppa tea and a buttery to wake me up. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021). butteryadj. Brit. /ˈbʌt(ə)ri/, U.S. /ˈbədəri/ Forms: Middle English–1500s buttry, 1500s buttrie, 1600s– buttery. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: butter n.¹, -y suffix¹. Etymology: < butter n.¹ + -y suffix¹. 1. a. Of the nature of butter; containing butter; having the rich, creamy flavour of butter. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dairy produce > butter > [adjective] butterya1398 butterish1542 butyraceous1669 butyrous1682 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xix. lxv. 1328 Kow mylk is..lasse scharp and more buttry [L. butirosum]. 1584 T. Cogan Hauen of Health cxciv. 155 Because it [sc. milk] is buttrie, it..is good against pricking paynes of the Lungs. 1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 418 His fatty and buttery part is hotter then the whole body of the milke. 1668 N. Culpeper & A. Cole tr. T. Bartholin Anat. (new ed.) i. i. 4/2 It resembles the buttery substance of Milk. 1737 J. Byrom Jrnl. 22 Apr. in Private Jrnl. & Lit. Remains (1856) II. i. 123 (transcript from orig. shorthand) Had a cheesecake..by the way, which..did not sit so easy, being buttery. 1859 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. V. 392/2 To increase the buttery constituent. 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 867/1 They [sc. avocados] contain a large quantity of firm pulp possessing a buttery or marrow-like taste. 1943 M. Millar Wall of Eyes xvii. 216 The popcorn looked very buttery. You didn't often get really buttery popcorn any more. 1981 Bon Appétit May 104/1 Suppose you are planning a family-style Sunday dinner, complete with..buttery mashed potatoes. 2002 Nat. Health Oct. 118/1 A semisolid nonhydrogenated spread with a buttery smell and flavor. 2014 Good Housek. Apr. 207 (advt.) Delicious mini chocolate sandwich cakes with a hint of buttery caramel. b. spec. Of wine: having a rich, creamy flavour or smoothness similar to that of butter. ΚΠ 1979 Washington Post 3 June e1/3 [Chardonnay] can be light and crisp..or full-bodied, even ‘buttery’. 1991 O. Clarke Webster's Wine Guide 1992 185/1 White Rioja can be tremendously buttery and rich. 2015 B. Desautels Winesense ii. ii. 89 You'll find wine with a nuanced bouquet, buttery vanilla flavours, and long-lasting pleasant aftertastes. 2. a. Resembling butter in feel or consistency; soft, yielding. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > constitution of matter > softness > [adjective] > soft like specific thing or material uddery1398 butteryc1450 carnose1562 silk-soft1570 downy1583 linty1607 flower-softa1616 lawny1615 unwoody1635 snow-like1663 pillowy1769 eider1789 puddingy1825 cushiony1839 sarcoid1841 cushioned1861 marshmallowy1993 the world > matter > constitution of matter > oiliness or greasiness > [adjective] > buttery butteryc1450 butterish1542 butter-like1600 butyraceous1669 butyrous1682 c1450 in T. Austin Two 15th-cent. Cookery-bks. (1888) 75 (MED) Take faire nessh chese that is buttry..grynde hit in a morter. 1685 J. Chamberlayne tr. A. Colmenero de Ladesma Treat. Chocolate iv, in P. S. Dufour Manner of making Coffee, Tea, & Chocolate 115 I affirm however that the great quantity of buttery parts, which I have proved to be in the Cacao, are those which fatten. 1719 G. London & H. Wise J. de la Quintinie's Compl. Gard'ner (ed. 7) 61 Its Pulp tender, but not buttery. 1803 W. Forsyth Treat. Fruit-trees (ed. 2) vii. 142 The flesh..melting and buttery. 1847 J. A. Clarke in Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 8 i. 91 The same buttery clay may be found above a stratum of moor. c1865 H. Letheby in J. Wylde Circle of Sci. I. 95/1 The oil has a buttery consistence. 1868 F. E. Paget Lucretia 281 His buttery heart. 1898 C. Salter tr. L. A. Andés Animal Fats 204 It forms a mass of buttery or salve-like consistency. 1949 H. W. C. Vines Green's Man. Pathol. (ed. 17) xvi. 431 The cyst is filled by a buttery yellowish mass of sebaceous secretion. 1984 C. Phillips in Everyday Matters 2 48 Mike, the technician, had given her some particularly buttery clay. 2006 Lush Times Spring 30/4 Lovely softening buttery lip balm that, unsurprisingly, is scented/flavoured with lime. b. Resembling butter in colour; of any of various shades from soft to bright yellow. ΚΠ 1865 Vermont Chron. 7 Jan. 6/1 Parting the hair to see the skin, it should have a buttery yellow or almost orange color. 1943 Poetry 62 133 She loves the buttery glow of candlelight. 1979 in J. Cleese & C. Booth Fawlty Towers (1988) 167 It's lovely, it's just a bit buttery with my skin. 2017 Daily News (N.Y.) (Nexis) 25 June (Sports Final ed.) (N.Y. Eats section) 52 When the melon's ripe, that part of the rind turns a buttery yellow color. 3. figurative. Of a person, or his or her manner or behaviour: given to or characterized by flattery; (excessively) smooth and ingratiating; unctuous. Cf. butter n.¹ 2b. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > flattery or flattering > [adjective] ficklinga1240 glozing1297 blandingc1315 blandishingc1374 glaveringc1394 fleering?a1400 sleekedc1400 faginga1425 smoothc1450 flattering1484 cogging1542 flatterous1546 butterya1585 smooth-tongueda1593 oily1598 silken1598 slick-tongued1598 soothing1599 sleek1601 slick1606 blandiloquous1615 supellectile1615 colloguing1620 losengeous1632 oiled-tongued1632 daubing1655 blandiloquious1689 smooth-booted1706 palavering1764 pill-gilding1764 oily-tongued1788 buttering1789 sleeky1810 smooth-spoken1821 oleaginous1833 butteraceous1837 saponaceous1837 soft-soapy1849 soapy1854 blarneying1884 smarmy1924 sweet-talking1956 smoothie1959 smarming1970 blandiloquent- a1585 P. Hume Flyting with Montgomerie (Tullibardine) ix. 64 in Poems A. Montgomerie (2000) I. 174 Buttrie bag, fill the knag, þow will wag with the morrowis, Coyd clatterer, skin batterer, and flatterer of freindis. 1842 Tait's Edinb. Mag. Nov. 725/1 With the Germans and Italians she is charitable, liberal, indulgent, honeyed; nay, with very particular noble favourites, almost buttery. 1878 Judy 5 June 344/1 There is nothing at all of a buttery expression, so to speak, about the landlady's face as she asks me what is the matter, and whether I have anything to complain of. 1902 Black & White Budget 12 July 508/2 ‘My dear sir,’ replied the grocer wi' a bland an' buttery smile, ‘ther's bin no deception.’ 1919 C. B. Hawes Mutineers (1920) xxv. 208 The dirty villain would have us hanged at the nearest gallows for all his buttery words. 1996 A. Kazin Lifetime Burning in Every Moment 91 Manner usually buttery, confiding, intellectual; in repose, the coldness of a Nazi officer in full charge of the situation. 2004 S. Mehta Maximum City 358 When I was working in Dubai I was the boss; now I have to say ‘sir, sir’. For a struggler, this is the rule of life: you have to be very buttery. 4. Smeared with butter. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > garnishing > [adjective] > spread with butter or margarine well-butteredeOE buttered1496 buttery1747 margarined1924 1747 H. Glasse Art of Cookery i. 5 Rub it over with a buttery Cloth. 1822 London Mag. Feb. 168/2 There they clung with their round, crumby, rosy cheeks, and plump buttery fingers. 1878 H. H. Jackson Nelly's Silver Mine xiv. 350 Pray excuse me a minute, till I can take myself out of this buttery apron. 1914 M. Lynn Stepdaughter of Prairie 243 She rubbed her nose with the back of her hand and eyed him above her buttery fingers. 1956 G. Durrell My Family & Other Animals (1965) xviii. 283 A layer of butter had been spread over the side plates, and buttery footprints wandered to and fro across the cloth. 2001 Guardian 10 Aug. (G2 section) 6 Thrusting one's buttery knife in the Marmite is a putrid error. 5. Of sound, music, a voice, etc.: mellow, smooth, and pleasant. ΚΠ 1864 Peterson's Mag. Jan. 44/1 If mother's loud, buttery voice had a sharp twang about it sometimes, it did not last long. 1944 J. S. Huxley On Living in Revol. viii. 91 He was rather a small man with a strange, rather buttery sort of quality in his voice. 1983 Guardian 10 Feb. (Arts section) 12/7 In his solo he just shuffled a handful of soft, buttery notes, but it sounded like a symphony. 1995 New Yorker 27 Mar. 18/3 The thread that holds it together is his buttery guitar, a burbling purr that remains one of the most instantly identifiable voices in contemporary music. 2015 Erie (Pa.) Times-News (Nexis) 25 June The Suffers, a 10-piece, horn-heavy Houston band that plays buttery soul, funk and jazz with a heavy '70s influence. Compounds † buttery Benjie n. Scottish slang Obsolete (at some Scottish universities) a first-year student; = bejan n. ΘΚΠ society > education > learning > learner > college or university student > [noun] > first-year student puny1548 freshman1583 puisne1592 freshwomana1627 bejan1642 nib1655 jib1827 greeny1834 fox1839 freshie1845 rat1850 buttery Benjie1854 pennal1854 yellow-beak1865 fresher1875 yellow-neb1879 yearling1908 frosh1915 1854 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 76 433/2 Why the word [sc. Bejant] should be corrupted into Benjie, and still more why he should be called a ‘Buttery benjie’, are etymological problems which we no more pretend to solve, than the reason why his fellow freshman at Heidelberg is called a Leathery fox. buttery-fingered adj. having a tendency to let things fall or slip from one's hands; = butterfingered adj. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ability > inability > unskilfulness > [adjective] > clumsy or awkward > clumsy with the hands handless1483 left-handed1579 butterfingered1615 heavy-handeda1634 thumbless1648 unhandy1669 mutton-fisted1737 two-fisted1774 numb-handed1849 butterfingers1851 buttery-fingered1853 cack-handed1854 Marlborough-handed1893 thumb-fingered1903 thumby1909 ham-handed1918 ham-fisted1928 1853 C. Reade Peg Woffington i. 25 All the ladies and gentlemen..whom the buttery-fingered author could not keep in hand until the fall of the curtain. 1917 Photo-era Aug. 81/1 When buttery-fingered people like us get infected with the photographic germ, while learning they are apt to smash everything breakable from trays and negatives to their own bank-accounts and hearts. 2011 Sunday Herald Sun (Austral.) (Nexis) 10 July 71 A bunch of buttery-fingered backs who couldn't hold on to the ball. 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