different between buttery vs spencer

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?sp?ns?/
• Rhymes: -?ns?(r)

Etymology 1

From the family name Spencer. The jacket is probably named after George Spencer, 2nd Earl Spencer (1758-1834).

Noun

spencer (plural spencers)

1. (historical) A short double-breasted men's overcoat worn in the 18th and 19th centuries.
2. (historical) A short, close-fitting jacket primarily worn by women and children in the early 19th century.
3. (historical) A (usually woollen) vest worn by women and girls for extra warmth.
   • 1933, Vera Brittain, Testament of Youth, Penguin 2005, p. 34:

     I am seized with an angry resentment against the conventions of twenty years ago, which wrapped up my comely adolescent body in woollen combinations, black cashmere stockings, “liberty” bodice, dark stockinette knickers, flannel petticoat and often, in addition, a long-sleeved, high-necked, knitted woollen “spencer”.

4. A large loose-fitted gaffsail on a square-rigger or barque, used from the nineteenth century onwards.

Etymology 2

From Middle English spenser, spensere, from Anglo-Norman despenser or Old French espensier, from Latin disp?ns?re (“to dispense, distribute; to manage”). Equivalent to spence (“buttery”) +? -er.

Noun

spencer (plural spencers)

1. (archaic) One who works in a spence or buttery.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Promptorium Parvulorum to this entry?)

French

Etymology

From English spencer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sp?n.s??/

Noun

spencer m (plural spencers)

1. spencer (garment)

Further reading

• “spencer” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Polish

Etymology

From English spencer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sp?n.t?s?r/

Noun

spencer m inan

1. spencer (garment)

Declension

Further reading

• spencer in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• spencer in Polish dictionaries at PWN