peanut buttery

comparative more peanut buttery · superlative most peanut buttery

1. Alternative form of peanut-buttery.
   1. Resembling or characteristic of peanut butter.

      A bread with a subtle peanut buttery taste and aroma.

      1987, Ron Goor, Nancy Goor, Eater’s Choice: A Food Lover’s Guide to Lower Cholesterol, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN, page 276

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      Inside they’ll be a fluffy, light brown with a nice, peanut buttery taste.

      1936 January 11, Mary Meade, “Here Is First of Lessons for Juvenile Cooks”, in Chicago Daily Tribune, volume XCV, number 10, Chicago, Ill., page 15

      For a richer chocolate taste, substitute white chocolate chips for the butterscotch chips; for a peanut buttery taste, use peanut butter chips.

      1997, Joely Maddux, “[Done Fast Desserts] Butterscotch Peanut Clusters”, in Beta Sigma Phi, Fast Feasts, Nashville, Tenn.: Favorite Recipes® Press, Heritage House, Inc., →ISBN, page 170, column 1

      I don’t know why, but my contraband of choice in the barracks was Nutter Butter cookies. I was addicted to them in high school for their peanut buttery taste and whenever we were allowed to go the PX, I bought a package of them.

      2000, Debra Haraldson, “Contraband”, in Just Shut Your Mouth & Do What You're Told: Surviving In The Army, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN, page 55

      I actually like pak, as it has a nutty (almost peanut buttery) taste, but my stomach isn’t impressed if I eat more than one ball per day.

      2005, Yvonne Prater, Ruth Dyar Mendenhall, with Kerry I. Smith, Beyond Gorp: Favorite Foods from Outdoor Experts, Seattle, Wash.: The Mountaineers Books, →ISBN, page 27

      If you’re wondering what exactly is a BUTTERFINGER, first, to be clear—there are no fingers! But there is a creamy blend of crispety sugar candy and peanut buttery taste.

      2005, The Nestlé Cookbook: Hundreds of Triple-Tested, Easy Recipes for Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, and Dessert from the Largest Food Company in the World, San Francisco, Calif.: Silverback Books, Inc., →ISBN, page 181, column 3

   2. With peanut butter.

      Tony! Don't you dare touch my new mohair sweater with those peanut buttery fingers.

      1965, Kathryn Bedaw, “Small Problems”, in Alter Ego, volume IV, [Montague, Mass.]: [Turners Falls High School], page 27

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      It’s not just the 22 drinking glasses on the drainboard indicated that two kids and two friends had five drinks of water between breakfast and lunch and that two of them didn’t like the color of the first clean glass they selected. It’s not even the apple cores, empty yogurt cartons and banana peels or the peanut buttery bread crusts.

      1975 January 3, Gaye LeBaron, “Gaye LeBaron”, in The Press Democrat, 118th year, number 61, Santa Rosa, Calif., page 3, column 1

      “I’m makin’ a samwich,” Wendy announced happily. “Want some?” When Culley laughingly declined, she offered the peanut buttery knife instead to Prissy, who had just jumped up on the table to investigate, leaving her kittens mewing piteously in their box.

      1988, Kathleen Creighton, The Sorcerer’s Keeper (Loveswept; 299), Toronto, Ont.; New York, N.Y.; [etc.]: Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 69

      Somehow eating four sections of warm peanut buttery bread seemed more filling than munching on two half pieces.

      1991 October 2, Kimberly Masters, “Menomonie children spark memories”, in The Dunn County News, volume 132, number 27, Menomonie, Wis., page 4

      “You’ve got a milk mustache, sweetie,” Mel said, scraping the peanut buttery bread crusts, the sticky peach pit, and the crumpled apple juice container from his Mighty Morphins lunch box into the garbage can.

      1997, H[arriet] B. Gilmour, chapter 15, in One Fine Day, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Paperbacks, →ISBN, page 253

      Their faces are all sticky; / And I think their ears are, too. They’ve run away to wash them. Pam’s cleaning up her dress. But just look at the kitchen. Who’ll clean up the mess? Of the peanut buttery bread.

      2001, Phyllis A. MacDonald, poem, in Lifepac Science Grade 1, part 1, Alpha Omega Publications, →ISBN, page 105