different between butler vs buttery

English

Etymology

From Middle English butler, butlere, boteler, botelere, from Old French buttiler, butiller, boteillier (“officer in charge of wine”), from Medieval Latin botell?rius, equivalent to bottle +? -er.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?b?t.l?(?)/
• (US) enPR: b?t?-l?r, IPA^(key): /?b?t.l?/
• Rhymes: -?tl?(?)
• Hyphenation: but?ler

Noun

butler (plural butlers)

1. A manservant having charge of wines and liquors.
2. The chief male servant of a household who has charge of other employees, receives guests, directs the serving of meals, and performs various personal services.
3. A valet, a male personal attendant.

Derived terms

• buttle (backformation)

Related terms

• butt (large cask)

Translations

Verb

butler (third-person singular simple present butlers, present participle butlering, simple past and past participle butlered)

1. To buttle, to dispense wines or liquors; to take the place of a butler.

References

Anagrams

• turbel

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English butler.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?t.l?r/
• Hyphenation: but?ler

Noun

butler m (plural butlers, diminutive butlertje n)

1. A butler (chief male servant of a household; valet; booze manservant).

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?b?t??i/

Etymology 1

From Middle English buttry, equivalent to butter +? -y. Piecewise doublet of butyric, butter ultimately being from Latin b?t?rum and -y being a doublet of -ic.

Adjective

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 color or texture.

   The old paper was a buttery color you no longer get.
3. (informal) Marked by insincere flattery; obsequious.
4. (computing, video games) Short for buttery smooth.

Synonyms

• butterish
• butterlike
• butyraceous
• butyric (rare)

Derived terms

• butteriness

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English boterie, from Old French boterie and Medieval Latin buteria, from Late Latin bot?ria, from a variant form of butta (“cask, bottle”). The form was probably influenced by butter.

Noun

buttery (plural butteries)

1. A room for keeping food or beverages; a storeroom.
   • 1999, George RR Martin, A Clash of Kings, Bantam 2011, p. 458:

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

2. (Britain) A room in a university where snacks are sold.

Translations

Anagrams

• Buttrey, Tetbury, Utterby