buttery

FREQ #36573

n. 配膳室 a. 涂用黄油的, 谄媚的

发音

UK /ˈbʌtəɹi/
其它
UK /ˈbʌtɹi/
US /ˈbʌt(ə)ɹi/

词形变化

butteries 复数 butterier 比较级 butterier butteriest butteriest 最高级

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A rowie.

    苏格兰
  2. 1.

    A room for keeping food or beverages; a storeroom.

  3. 2.

    A room in a university where snacks are sold.

    英国
adj.
  1. 1.

    Made with or tasting of butter.

    The buttery-tasting cookie was actually made with margarine, but you couldn't tell by tasting it.

  2. 2.

    Resembling butter in some way, such as yellow color or smooth texture.

    The old paper was a buttery color you no longer get.

  3. 3.

    Marked by insincere flattery; obsequious.

    非正式
  4. 4.

    Ellipsis of buttery smooth.

    计算机 工程 数学 游戏

词汇关系

名词

同义词 2

pantry larder

上位词 5

storeroom teahouse stowage tea room tea shop

下位词 1

stillroom
形容词

同义词 6

oily soapy smarmy fulsome oleaginous unctuous

近义相关 3

fat fatty insincere

相关短语

buttery bar buttery bars buttery hatch buttery smooth peanut buttery my steak is too juicy, my lobster is too buttery peanut-buttery

词源

From Middle English buttry, equivalent to butter + -y. Piecewise doublet of butyric, butter ultimately being from Latin būtȳrum and -y being a doublet of -ic.

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