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  • adjective superlative form of buttery: most buttery.

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Examples

  • What a pretty sight, and what a pleasant thing a nursery tea is! when the children, that is to say, are sweet-faced and smiling, with clean pinafores, and clean hands, and gentle voices; not leaning over the table, knocking over cups, and snatching rudely at the "butteriest" pieces of bread and butter, and making digs at the sugar when nurse is not looking.

    The Adventures of Herr Baby 1908

  • Once she compiled her grocery list she began two or three days of shopping, searching for the freshest vegetables and best cuts of meat, the butteriest baked goods.

    History of a Suicide Jill Bialosky 2011

  • Once she compiled her grocery list she began two or three days of shopping, searching for the freshest vegetables and best cuts of meat, the butteriest baked goods.

    History of a Suicide Jill Bialosky 2011

  • Even the hard sells-customers used to daily orders of the butteriest croissants-down-graded to low-fat muffins.

    Gothamist 2010

  • But once I was seated, my attention turned to the dahl bhat set ($14) - rice and lentils, with several other dishes, including potato pickle, a substantial vegetable curry and some of the softest, butteriest naan I have eaten in ages.

    The Baltimore Snacker 2008

  • From the flakiest, butteriest, lightest pie crust sprang a creamy tart loaded with sweet peaches, tangy tomatoes, crunchy, meaty walnuts, and meltingly sweet shallots.

    Blogtimore, Hon 2008

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