Buttery

['bʌt(ə)rɪ] or ['bʌtəri]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) a teashop where students in British universities can purchase light meals.

(adj.) resembling or containing or spread with butter; 'a rich buttery cake' .

(adj.) 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' .

編輯:梅布尔--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(a.) Having the qualities, consistence, or appearance, of butter.

(n.) An apartment in a house where butter, milk and other provisions are kept.

(n.) A room in some English colleges where liquors, fruit, and refreshments are kept for sale to the students.

(n.) A cellar in which butts of wine are kept.

編輯:沃伦

同義詞及近義詞：

n. Pantry.

欧内斯特整理

解釋/意思:

n. a storeroom in a house for provisions esp. liquors.—ns. Butt′ery-bar the ledge for holding tankards in the buttery; Butt′ery-hatch a half-door over which provisions are handed from the buttery.

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