buttery
buh tuh ree
- 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 - s resembling or containing or spread with butter
a rich buttery cake
- How is it that the French can eat a diet rich in cheese and buttery sauces and still suffer less heart disease than Americans? The answer to the famous French paradox, say .
- He uses catchphrases like "pop, pop, pop" to describe the buttery-popcorn taste of some wines; overly sweet Shirazes are "RWC" (red-wine cocktails).
- On a recent blustery night, she and five of her closest girlfriends, dressed in unseasonable short sleeves, downed cocktails and took shots of "buttery nipples," a syrupy blend of .