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- adjective
superlative form ofbuttery : mostbuttery .
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Examples
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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.
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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
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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
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Even the hard sells-customers used to daily orders of the butteriest croissants-down-graded to low-fat muffins.
Gothamist 2010
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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.
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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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