Buttery vs Butyraceous - What's the difference?
buttery | butyraceous |
A room for keeping food or beverages; a storeroom.
* 1999 , (George RR Martin), A Clash of Kings , Bantam 2011, p. 458:
(UK) A room in a university where snacks are sold.
Made with or tasting of butter.
Resembling butter in some way.
As adjectives the difference between buttery and butyraceous
is that buttery is made with or tasting of butter while butyraceous is of, pertaining to or containing butter; buttery.As a noun buttery
is a room for keeping food or beverages; a storeroom.buttery
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) boterie, from . The form was probably influenced by butter.Noun
(butteries)- Pretty Pia from the buttery was a slut who was working her way through every knight in the castle.
Etymology 2
From .Adjective
(er)- The buttery -tasting cookie was actually made with margarine, but you couldn't tell by tasting it.
- The old paper was a buttery color you no longer get.