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buttery

buttery

21 3.2
Having a rich, smooth taste like butter
  • adjective
  • /ˈbʌtəri/
: mantecoso
  • The shadows have a soft kind of buttery creamy feel to the touch.
  • buttery flavor
  • buttery taste
  • rich and buttery

They have these really soft, buttery feeling pyjamas.

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Examples

  • He loves to bake buttery cookies filled with chocolate and nuts.

  • The scones that Angela produced and put on the kitchen table looked light and buttery.

    Fiction book (1998)

  • That is about as buttery smooth as it gets my friends.

  • Two coats of wax and this finish are buttery soft to the touch.

    Blog text (3)

  • It's made of this beautiful, like mailable, buttery soft material.

  • And these are beautiful buttery yellow blooms.

  • The formula on this shade is buttery smooth and does great in two coats.

    Blog text (8)

  • Cod is a delicious, buttery, creamy fish.

  • The eyeshadow formula had a nice, buttery smooth texture that really applied nicely.

    Blog text (31)

  • With a buttery Chardonnay.

    Overboard (2018)

Synonyms

creamy
vsbuttery
59 1.1

Being smooth and thick with a rich feel like thick soup

is more solid and fatty, highlighting true dairy fat richness not fluid richness
velvety
vsbuttery
12 3.8

Smooth and very soft in touch, look, sound, or taste

is richer and signals fatty smoothness rather than only soft texture
butterlike
vsbuttery
1 3.1

Feels soft, smooth, and creamy like butter

is broader and also covers items that contain or are spread with dairy fat
butyraceous
vsbuttery
  • Specialized
9.9

Having the taste, smell, or texture of butter

is the common, everyday term for that same dairy fat quality

How Rich

luscious
9 4.3
buttery
21 3.2
creamy
59 1.1

Surface Forms

buttery positive

Morphology

buttery = butter (transparent) = butter + y

Clear adjective formation meaning 'having the qualities of butter' or 'covered with butter'.

Etymology

Buttery comes from butter plus the ending -y meaning 'like' or 'full of', so it literally means 'like butter'. That's why we call food or sauces buttery when they are rich, smooth and melt in your mouth.