Meanings
- not comparablerareCovered with butter.
[…] he turned gustily to the savor-drenched meats, the embuttered fish, the specially fragranced jellies and relishes, and to the spicy pimento wine.
1962, Earl Conrad, Crane Eden, New York: Pyramid, Part One, p. 571 more example
Hot butter squirted, by a quaint device, out of the bloodcoloured pudding. Gaius Caligula laughed to see the exquisite Lollia Paulina’s exquisite face embuttered.
1985, Anthony Burgess, chapter 2, in The Kingdom of the Wicked, New York: Arbor House, pages 157–158
Origin
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