buttery

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buttery Definition

• (n) a small storeroom for storing foods or wines
• (n) a teashop where students in British universities can purchase light meals
• (s) 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"
• (s) resembling or containing or spread with butter; "a rich buttery cake"

buttery Synonyms

• buttery
• fulsome
• larder
• oily
• oleaginous
• pantry
• smarmy
• unctuous