Meaning

noun a small storeroom for storing foods or wines

noun a teashop where students in British universities can purchase light meals

adjective unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech

originFrom Middle English boterie, from Old French boterie and Medieval Latin buteria, from Late Latin botāria, from a variant form of butta (“cask, bottle”). The form was probably influenced by butter.

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