different between buttery vs spence

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

English

Etymology

From Middle English spence, spense, borrowed from Middle French despense, from Medieval Latin d?sp?nsa, noun use of feminine of Latin d?sp?nsus, past participle of d?spendere (“weigh out”).

Pronunciation

Noun

spence (plural spences)

1. (Britain, dialect, dated) A buttery or pantry

Related terms

• spencer

Anagrams

• pences