- buttery (adj.)

- "resembling butter," late 14c., from butter (n.) + -y (2). Related: Butteriness.
- buttery (n.)

- "place for storing liquor," originally "room where provisions are laid up" (late 14c.), from Old French boterie, from Late Latin botaria, from bota, variant of butta "cask, bottle;" see butt (n.2) + -ery.