buttery

1. 1.

   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”

   “soapy compliments”

   Synonymsfulsomeoilyoleaginoussmarmysoapyunctuous

   Similarinsincere
2. 2.

   resembling or containing or spread with butter

   “a rich buttery cake”

   Similarfatty

Other forms of buttery

plural

butteries·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about buttery

What does buttery mean?

buttery means "a small storeroom for storing foods or wines". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in buttery?

buttery has 3 syllables: but-te-ry. The stress falls on "but". In IPA it is /ˈbʌtɚi/.

What is another word for buttery?

Close synonyms include pantry, larder, fulsome, oily, oleaginous. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is buttery a common word?

buttery is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.