| 单词 | buttery |
| 释义 | buttery (once / 8901 pages) 1adj 2n 3n Buttery food is full of butter, a rich creamy fat. Buttery also describes anything that reminds you of butter, like warm yellow light or a smooth talker who’s trying to butter you up so she can borrow your car. Although buttery is often used literally, as in “buttery popcorn,” it can describe anything that’s like butter in another way. If you describe someone's words or manner as buttery, you mean that they act insincerely complimentary or fawning. An old-fashioned meaning of buttery is "storeroom," like a pantry for keeping food or wine. Some British universities have a buttery, which is a snack shack for students. WORD FAMILYbuttery: butteries+/butt: butted, butter, butting, butts/butter: buttered, buttering, butters, buttery, butyraceous USAGE EXAMPLESThe buttery finish at the back of the palate offers just a hint of buttery aftertaste. Washington Times(Dec 21, 2016) I stepped inside a dining room lightly scented with cheese and buttery baking and ordered the Meierei Breakfast. Wall Street Journal(Dec 14, 2016) “It was warm, buttery and sophisticated, savory and slightly sweet at the same time.” Wall Street Journal(Dec 13, 2016) 1 1adj resembling or containing or spread with butter a rich buttery cake Syn fat, fatty containing or composed of fat 2adj unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech 2buttery praise Syn fulsome, oily, oleaginous, smarmy, soapy, unctuous insincere lacking sincerity n a small storeroom for storing foods or wines 3Syn|Hypo|Hyper larder, pantry still room, stillroom a pantry or storeroom connected with the kitchen (especially in a large house) for preparing tea and beverages and for storing liquors and preserves and tea etc storage room, storeroom, stowage a room in which things are stored n a teashop where students in British universities can purchase light meals Hyper tea parlor, tea parlour, teahouse, tearoom, teashop a restaurant where tea and light meals are available |
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