单词 | well-buttered |
释义 | well-butteredadj. Generously spread or smeared with butter. Also (and in earliest use): cooked, prepared, or served with plenty of butter.In quot. 1793 figurative; cf. buttered adj. 3. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > cooking > [adjective] > cooked with specific ingredient butteredeOE well-butteredeOE marroweda1640 meunière1903 eggless1904 creamed1906 the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > garnishing > [adjective] > spread with butter or margarine well-butteredeOE buttered1496 buttery1747 margarined1924 eOE Leechbk. (Royal) (1865) iii. xliii. 336 Wiþ attres drince seoþ henne & hocces leaf on wætre, ado þone fugel of & þa wyrta, sele supan þæt broð wel gebuterod swa he hatost mæge. 1618 Owles Almanacke sig. C2 A Crab well buttered is excellent meat. 1740 L. Whyte Poems 161 Whilst they of costly dainties boast, Let me prefer well butter'd Toast. 1793 J. Beresford in W. Roberts Looker-on No. 77. 614 Well-buttered blasphemies, stolen, through the medium of the foot-boy, from his master's table. 1845 E. Acton Mod. Cookery xviii. 472 Pour the mixture..into well-buttered cups, and bake. 1892 Pract. Cook (First Presbyterian Church, Omaha, Nebraska) (rev. ed.) 20 Put a layer of bread-crumbs in a baking dish, then a layer of salmon..and so on until the dish is filled, having well buttered crumbs on the top. 1902 Sphere 1 Nov. 122/1 Another pot full to the brim of light, feathery, well-buttered scones. 1967 Times 9 Dec. 22/6 A wine..suitable for drinking with oily or well-buttered rice dishes or pasta. 2016 Daily Tel. (Austral.) (Nexis) 5 July 40 Start with a potato layer in a well-buttered baking dish. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.eOE |
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