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Definitions for: Buttery [n] a teashop where students in British universities can purchase light meals
[n] a small storeroom for storing foods or wines
[adj] resembling or containing or spread with butter; "a rich buttery cake"
[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"
Webster (1913) Definition: But"ter*y, a.
Having the qualities, consistence, or appearance, of butter.
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: 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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