buttery

comparative butterier · superlative butteriest

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.

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   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.

   2015 September 5, Mark Diacono, “In praise of the Asian pear”, in The Daily Telegraph (Gardening), archived from the original on 12 Sep 2015, pages 1–2

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

   2019, Gina Zdanowicz, Spencer Bambrick, The Game Audio Strategy Guide: A Practical Course

3. informalMarked by insincere flattery; obsequious.

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

   1997, Russell Wild, Games Bosses Play: 36 Career Busters Your Supervisor May Be Firing Your Way and How You Can Defend Yourself, page 100

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

   2000, Scott von Doviak, Stephen King Films FAQ: All That's Left to Know About the King of Horror on Film

4. abbreviationellipsiscomputer graphicsEllipsis of buttery smooth.

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   2014 October 30, Greg Kumparak, “YouTube Can Now Play Videos At A Buttery 60 Frames Per Second”, in Tech Crunch

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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.

   2015 April 28, Jason Hidalgo, “Shout at the devil: DmC Devil May Cry Definitive Edition review”, in Reno Gazette Journal

   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.

   2015 November 19, Hayden Dingman, “Assassin’s Creed Syndicate PC review impressions: This gorgeous, mostly smooth game is no Unity”, in PC World

   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.

   2018, Darrin Thompson, Set The Tone

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

   2018, Dachima Inaka, Do You Love Your Mom and Her Two-Hit Multi-Target Attacks?

   So, if you're looking to play PC games with a buttery frame rate, these monitors are ready to deliver a great experience, and it gets even better when paired with Nvidia’s G-Sync or AMD’s FreeSync.

   2021 December 12, Mark Knapp, Matt Elliot, “Best 1080p Gaming Monitors 2021”, in IGN

plural butteries

1. ScotlandA 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."

   2024 May 24, The Press and Journal, Inverness, page 28, column 2

plural butteries

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

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

   1955 October 20, J[ohn] R[onald] R[euel] Tolkien, “Minas Tirith”, in The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of The Lord of the Rings […], New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, published December 1978, →ISBN, book V, page 39

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

   1999, George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings, Bantam, published 2011, page 458

2. UKA room in a university where snacks are sold.

plural Butterys

1. A surname from Anglo-Norman.