buttery

adj

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

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

   “While the European pear is, at its finest, buttery and surrenders to the slightest pressure, Asian pears are firm, very crisp, hugely juicy and sweet and, in some cases, highly aromatic – spicy almost.”

   “Most libraries have smooth, buttery legatos and exciting, natural-sounding spiccatos.”

3. (informal)Marked by insincere flattery; obsequious.

   “He'll be nothing but enraptured with your buttery words .”

   “Dawson, for one, is on the right wavelength, goosing his buttery game-show host persona into a caricature of unctuous evil.”

4. (abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis)Ellipsis of buttery smooth.

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   “These include improved textures and character models plus a new buttery frame rate as the game gets boosted to 1080p resolution and animation of 60 frames per second. Stylish.”

   “I dipped a few of the Nvidia-specific settings since I prefer smooth, buttery frame rate, but that’s impressive in itself given it’s the only game this year to make that happen.”

   “For video, setting a higher frame rate, like 60 frames per second, means having the ability for getting nicer, buttery, silky-smooth, slow motion—if you're into that sort of thing.”

   “That frame rate is buttery. Your computer has an excellent graphics card, Masato”

noun

1. (Scotland)A rowie.

   “"We used to make 50 tins of butteries just for our Saturday trade, now it's about 20 tins, se we've seen a real shift which we've put down to an increased focus on health."”

2. A room for keeping food or beverages; a storeroom.

   “‘This is the storehouse and buttery of my company of the Guard,’”

   “Pretty Pia from the buttery was a slut who was working her way through every knight in the castle.”

3. (UK)A room in a university where snacks are sold.

name

1. A surname from Anglo-Norman.