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buttery

adjective noun

resembling or containing or spread with butter

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Word length
7
Starts with
B
Ends with
Y
Contains
UT
Scrabble score
12

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adjective

  1. resembling or containing or spread with butter

    “a rich buttery cake”

adjective

  1. unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech

    “buttery praise”

noun

  1. a teashop where students in British universities can purchase light meals

noun

  1. a small storeroom for storing foods or wines

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Example Sentences

a rich buttery cake
buttery praise
gave him a fulsome introduction
an oily sycophantic press agent
oleaginous hypocrisy
smarmy self-importance

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