peanut-buttery

See also: peanut buttery

English

Alternative forms

• peanut buttery

Etymology

From peanut butter +‎ -y.

Adjective

peanut-buttery (comparative more peanut-buttery, superlative most peanut-buttery)

1. Indicative or characteristic of peanut butter; like peanut butter.
   • 1987, John Thorne, Simple Cooking, New York, N.Y.: Viking, →ISBN, page 142:

     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.

2. With peanut butter.

   Synonym: peanut-buttered

   • 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:

     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.

   • 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:

     Also, hikers should avoid wiping peanut-buttery knives on their pants.

   • 2005, Maria Mann, Verity Red’s Diary: A Story of Surviving M.E., London: Janus Publishing Company, →ISBN, pages 204–205:

     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.

   • 2009, Anna Wilson, “How to Cook a Dog’s Dinner”, in Puppy Power, London: Macmillan Children’s Books, published 2015, →ISBN:

     She sat immediately and looked at the peanut-buttery toast in a particularly beady-eyed fashion.

   • 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:

     Her hair was brownish, crinkly and soft-looking; it made me want to touch it with peanut-buttery fingers.