buttermilk
UK /ˈbʌtəˌmɪlk/ · US /ˈbʌtɚˌmɪlk/ noun
Forms buttermilks
- noun The liquid left over after producing butter from full cream milk by the churning process, also called traditional buttermilk.
- noun Cultured buttermilk, a fermented dairy product produced from cow's milk, with a characteristically sour taste.
- noun A light yellow color, like that of buttermilk.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English butter-melke, equivalent to butter + milk. Cognate with Dutch botermelk (“buttermilk”), German Buttermilch (“buttermilk”), Low German Bottermelk (“buttermilk”), Luxembourgish Bottermëllech (“buttermilk”), Plautdietsch Bottamalkj, Bottamaltj, Bottermalkj, Bottermaltj (“buttermilk”), and Yiddish פּוטערמילך (putermilkh), פּוטער־מילעך (puter-milekh, “buttermilk”).
Webster’s 1913
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