buttered

1. 1
   adjective

   Coated or spread with butter, as bread, vegetables, or a pan might be.

   He served thick slices of buttered bread alongside the soup.

   A buttered crumpet is best eaten while still warm.

   Oppositedry

   Note

   A kitchen word that usually comes right before its noun, as in the familiar hot buttered toast. Although it began as a participle, it behaves as a true adjective and can be graded with more and most, so one slice can be more buttered than another. It names the result of the spreading, which is why it pairs so naturally with bread, rolls and crumpets.

2. 2
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of butter.

   The cook buttered the toast and sprinkled it with cinnamon.

   Grandmother buttered every roll on the table before dinner.

   Note

   A regular past form that serves every verb sense of butter, from the kitchen to the ski slope. The same spelling also covers an obsolete gambler's usage: to butter the stakes was to raise them at every throw of the dice or every game. In passives and perfects it sits close to the adjective, so 'the toast was buttered' can report an action or describe the toast.

3. 3
   adjective

   Of a turn or trick, performed using the buttering technique: flexing the board to pivot on its nose or tail.

   The rider linked a buttered turn into a tail press down the gentle slope.

   Judges rewarded the buttered transition between the two rails.

   Note

   A board-sport term borrowed from the kitchen. A rider pressing onto the nose or tail of a ski or snowboard was likened to spreading butter with the tip of a knife, so the breakfast-table adjective found a second life on the slopes. A buttered turn pivots on that pressed end while the board stays on the snow. Riders use the word for spins and transitions as well as turns.

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