Added 9 October 2026
buttermilk
/ˈbʌtɚˌmɪlk/ noun
noun Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA). Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about buttermilk at Wordnik → Where our words come from →
- The liquid left over after producing butter from full cream milk by the churning process, also called traditional buttermilk.
- Cultured buttermilk, a fermented dairy product produced from cow's milk, with a characteristically sour taste.
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A light yellow color, like that of buttermilk. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
buttermilk:
Origin
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”).
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