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Butler vs Buttery - What's the difference?

butler | buttery |

As a proper noun butler

is .

As a noun buttery is

a room for keeping food or beverages; a storeroom.

As an adjective buttery is

made with or tasting of butter.

butler

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A manservant having charge of wines and liquors.
  • 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.
  • * 1929 , Baldwyn Dyke Acland, Filibuster , Chapter 2
  • *:“One marble hall, with staircase complete, one butler' and three to one flunkey, gloves to another, and there was the fourth poor blighter looking like an orphan at a Mothers' Meeting. …"
  • A valet, a male personal attendant.

    • Derived terms

    * buttle (backformation)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To buttle, to dispense wines or liquors; to take the place of a butler.

    • References

    buttery

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) boterie, from . The form was probably influenced by butter.

    Noun

    (butteries)
  • 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.
  • (UK) A room in a university where snacks are sold.

    • Etymology 2

    From .

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Made with or tasting of butter.
    • The buttery -tasting cookie was actually made with margarine, but you couldn't tell by tasting it.
  • Resembling butter in some way.
    • The old paper was a buttery color you no longer get.
    Derived terms
    * butteriness