a. Obs. [f. BUTTER sb.1 + -ISH1.] Of the nature of butter, buttery.
1542. Boorde, Dyetary, xiii. (1870), 265. Euery thyng that is vnctious, that is to say, butterysshe.
1594. Carew, Huarte’s Exam. Wits (1616), 330. This [meat] … was the butterish part of the milke eaten with honnie.
1661. Lovell, Hist. Anim. & Min. If they [curds] be equally mixed with the butterish part, the cheese made thereof is wholsome.
