Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: buttery
IPA transcription: [b'ʌtɚi]
adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: buttery
    Meaning: resembling or containing or spread with butter; "a rich buttery cake"
  • Synonyms: buttery, fulsome, oily, oleaginous, smarmy, soapy, unctuous
    Meaning: 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"
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: buttery
    Meaning: a teashop where students in British universities can purchase light meals
  • Synonyms: pantry, larder, buttery
    Meaning: a small storeroom for storing foods or wines
Usage examples
  • The dry larder, which lay under the court, between the kitchen and buttery, was by degrees filled with gammons and flitches of bacon, well dried and smoked. Wheat, barley, oats, and pease were stored in the granary, and potatoes in a pit dug in the orchard.