different between butters vs buttery

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?b?t?z/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?b?t?z/
• Hyphenation: but?ters

Etymology 1

Noun

butters

1. plural of butter

Verb

butters

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of butter

Etymology 2

The expression “butters” is thought to be an abbreviation coming from the wording of “she's attractive, but her face”, referring to when a man appreciates a women’s body but does not like her face.Possibly originating in the school playground, or could be linked to wolf-whistling.

Currently, it seems to have evolved into meaning a woman is generally ugly (with no appreciation for the female's face or body).

Adjective

butters

1. (Britain, slang) Unattractive, ugly or repulsive.

Anagrams

• bestrut, betrust

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