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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Buttery \But"ter*y\, a. Having the qualities, consistence, or appearance, of butter. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: 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" [syn: {fulsome}, {oily}, {oleaginous}, {smarmy}, {unctuous}] 2: resembling or containing or spread with butter; "a rich buttery cake" n 1: a small room for storing foods or wines [syn: {pantry}, {larder}] 2: where students in British universities can purchase light meals
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