Buttered

ppl. a. [f. BUTTER v.¹]

  1.  Smeared or spread with butter.

1496.  Bk. St. Albans, Fysshynge, 39. Browne breede tostyd wyth hony in lyknesse of a butteryd loof.

a. 1680.  Rochester, in D’Urfey, Pills (1719), 343. With greasy painted Faces drest, With butter’d Hair.

1769.  Mrs. Raffald, Eng. Housekpr. (1778), 181. Tie it close up in a cloth well buttered.

1812.  L. Hunt, in Examiner, 7 Dec., 769/1. The urn and the buttered toast.

1847.  Barham, Ingol. Leg., Ser. III. (1858), 474. A round and a half of some hot butter’d toast.

  † 2.  Cooked with butter; served up with melted butter. Obs.

1567.  Triall Treas. (1850), 6. I would you had a dishe of buttered peason.

1596.  Nashe, Saffron Walden, O iv. Trotters, sheepes porknells, and buttered rootes.

1627.  Capt. Smith, Seaman’s Gram., xv. 75. A dish of buttered Rice with a little Cynamon.

1678.  B. R., Let. Pop. Friends, 4. Butter’d Codfish.

1785.  Burns, Halloween, xxviii. Butter’d sow’ns.

  † b.  Buttered ale (beer): see ALE 4.

1547.  Boorde, Brev. Health (1552), 120. A remedy [for hoarseness] … drynke buttered Ale or buttered beere.

1764.  T. Bridges, Homer Travest., II. 213. Good old wives shall tell the tale O’er roasted eggs and butter’d ale.

1789.  J. O’Donnel, in Med. Commun., II. 292. He desired to have some buttered ale for his supper.

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1625.  Hart, Anat. Ur., II. i. 56. If faire buttered speeches … could cure diseases.

1793.  J. Beresford, in Looker-on, No. 80 (1794), III. 275. Well-buttered blasphemies, stolen, through the medium of the foot-boy, from his master’s table.

1822.  C. Swan, Heir of Foiz, 246.

  † b.  Buttered bun(s (slang). A harlot, a mistress. (Cf. B. E., Dict. Cant. Crew, 1690).

1679.  Cullen w. Flock of Court Misses, in Roxb. Ballads (1884), V. 126. This is the day … that sets our Monarch free From butter’d Buns [i.e., Louise de Quérouaille] and Slavery.