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| 1. | [ noun ] (housing) a small storeroom for storing foods or wines | |
| Synonyms: | pantry larder | |
| Related terms: | storeroom stillroom | |
| 2. | [ adjective ] resembling or containing or spread with butter | |
| Examples: | "a rich buttery cake" |
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| Related terms: | fatty | |
| 3. | [ adjective ] unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech | |
| Synonyms: | oily smarmy oleaginous unctuous fulsome | |
| Examples: | "buttery praise" "gave him a fulsome introduction" "an oily sycophantic press agent" "oleaginous hypocrisy" "smarmy self-importance" "the unctuous Uriah Heep" |
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| Related terms: | insincere | |
| 4. | [ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 21694 | |
| 5. | [ noun ] (food) a teashop where students in British universities can purchase light meals | |
| Related terms: | teashop | |
| Similar spelling: |
Butter Buttry Buttrey Butera battery bitter better batter |
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