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Meanings of as soft as butter in English

As soft as butter; very soft.

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        Examples for "buttery"
        Examples for "buttery"
        1
        Run to the buttery; his goatship will be wanting butter and cheese.
        A clash of kings
        2
        This recipe uses cornflour and icing sugar to create the buttery texture.
        The South African
        3
        Soon, the first of the scholars came rapping upon the buttery hatch.
        Caleb's crossing
        4
        I saw heaps and heaps of it in Farmer Green's buttery yesterday.
        The Tale of Betsy Butterfly / Tuck-Me-In Tales
        5
        You're thinking of those amazing rashers that don't shrink, with buttery toast.
        The Irish Times
        Usage of as soft as butter in English
        1
        The frost had gone, and the lying snow was as soft as butter.
        Greenmantle
        2
        His voice was as soft as butter and never rose above a whisper.
        Geomancer (Well of Echoes)
        3
        They learned that from Ilan-mygenes are as soft as butter, she thinks.
        To the end of the land
        4
        When our Obstinate was in love he was as sweet as honey and as soft as butter.
        Bunyan Characters (1st Series)
        5
        His eyes strayed over her face, picking out all its beauties, and he felt himself growing as soft as butter.
        Maurice Guest
        6
        While Europe found most of the other continents as soft as butter to her trenchant blade, she met her match in Asia.
        The Age of the Reformation
        7
        They were as soft as butter to the touch, and she looked at them to stop herself from staring at the woman.
        Changeless
        8
        Hopewell Drugg is as soft as butter; mebbe he loved 'Cinda Stone; anyhow he merried her after he'd got the mitten from Amarilla.
        Janice Day at Poketown
        9
        "They looks as soft as butter, and they're as sly as foxes, and as quick, as quick-asquick as greased lightning, my lady."
        The Eustace Diamonds