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peanut-buttery en · ADJ

Etymology

From peanut butter + -y.

Meanings

1. Indicative or characteristic of peanut butter; like peanut butter.
   • Nut oils have the same problem; they work against the flavors in the dairy fats to muddy each other’s subtleties, resulting in a flat, peanut-buttery taste. 1987, John Thorne, Simple Cooking, New York, N.Y.: Viking, →ISBN, page 142:
2. With peanut butter.
   • Her hair was brownish, crinkly and soft-looking; it made me want to touch it with peanut-buttery fingers. 2010, Rosemund Handler, “Lena My Lovely”, in Joanne Hichens, editor, compiled by Lauri Kubuitsile, The Bed Book of Short Stories, Athlone: Modjaji Books, →ISBN, page 133:
   • I was listening to Ben’s phone message saying he would be coming home on Friday now (had decided to take unpaid leave to visit old schoolmate) and stuffing face with peanut-buttery-toast when drummer Stephen called round on his way to a gig. 2005, Maria Mann, Verity Red’s Diary: A Story of Surviving M.E., London: Janus Publishing Company, →ISBN, pages 204–205:
   • She sat immediately and looked at the peanut-buttery toast in a particularly beady-eyed fashion. 2009, Anna Wilson, “How to Cook a Dog’s Dinner”, in Puppy Power, London: Macmillan Children’s Books, published 2015, →ISBN:
   • Also, hikers should avoid wiping peanut-buttery knives on their pants. 1992, Rich Landers, Ida Rowe Dolphin, the Spokane Mountaineers, 100 Hikes in the Inland Northwest: Eastern Washington, Northern Rockies, Wallowas, Seattle, Wash.: The Mountaineers, →ISBN, page 23:
   • The situation may concern Dad’s favorite fountain pen, or the way you don’t turn the newspaper back after reading the funnies, or some bigger issue; it may concern Mother’s invariable scolding when you leave behind your peanut-buttery knives, bread-crumbs and milk glasses strewn over the table in a cleaned-up kitchen, or leave your bedroom a complete jumble when you rush off for high school. 1956 December 20, Gladys Bevans, “Child Obeys Parent Who Is Consistent”, in The Lexington Herald, volume 85, number 302, Lexington, Ky., page 18, columns 6–7:

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Synonyms

peanut-buttered