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buttery 音标拼音: [b'ʌtɚi] n. 食品室;酒贮藏室 食品室;酒贮藏室 buttery adj 1: 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: { buttery}, { fulsome}, { oily}, { oleaginous}, { smarmy}, { soapy}, { unctuous}] 2: resembling or containing or spread with butter; " a rich buttery cake" n 1: a small storeroom for storing foods or wines [ synonym: { pantry}, { larder}, { buttery}] 2: a teashop where students in British universities can purchase light mealsButtery \ But" ter* y\, a. Having the qualities, consistence, or appearance, of butter. [ 1913 Webster]
Buttery \ 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. [ 1913 Webster] All that need a cool and fresh temper, as cellars, pantries, and butteries, to the north. -- Sir H. Wotton. [ 1913 Webster] 2. A room in some English colleges where liquors, fruit, and refreshments are kept for sale to the students. [ 1913 Webster] And the major Oxford kept the buttery bar. -- E. Hall. [ 1913 Webster] 3. A cellar in which butts of wine are kept. -- Weale. [ 1913 Webster] { Buttery hatch}, a half door between the buttery or kitchen and the hall, in old mansions, over which provisions were passed. -- Wright. [ 1913 Webster]
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