Thesaurus: buttery

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1. a. Having the qualities, consistence, or appearance, of butter.
2. n. An apartment in a house where butter, milk and other provisions are kept.
3. n. A room in some English colleges where liquors, fruit, and refreshments are kept for sale to the students.
4. n. A cellar in which butts of wine are kept.
5. adj. unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech
6. adj. resembling or containing or spread with butter
7. n. a small storeroom for storing foods or wines
8. n. a teashop where students in British universities can purchase light meals
9. Having the qualities, consistence, or appearance, of butter. 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.
10. Having the qualities, consistence, or appearance, of butter.
11. j:83/n:17 n. a teashop where students in British universities can purchase light meals s. unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech s. resembling or containing or spread with butter