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buttermilk

but·ter·milk

UK/ˈbʌtəˌmɪlk/ US/ˈbʌtɚˌmɪlk/ uncommon

noun

1.

residue from making butter from sour raw milk; or pasteurized milk curdled by adding a culture

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”).

Phrases

  • Bulgarian buttermilk
  • Devil's buttermilk
  • fly in the buttermilk

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