embuttered

English

Etymology

em- + butter + -ed

Adjective

embuttered (not comparable)

  1. (rare) Covered with butter.
    • 1962, Earl Conrad, Crane Eden, New York: Pyramid, Part One, p. 57,
      [] he turned gustily to the savor-drenched meats, the embuttered fish, the specially fragranced jellies and relishes, and to the spicy pimento wine.
    • 1985, Anthony Burgess, The Kingdom of the Wicked, New York: Arbor House, Chapter Two, pp. 157-158,
      Hot butter squirted, by a quaint device, out of the bloodcoloured pudding. Gaius Caligula laughed to see the exquisite Lollia Paulina’s exquisite face embuttered.
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