buttermilk

CEFRB2

/ˈbʌtɚˌmɪlk/

noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A slightly sour milk used in cooking and baking.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    A light yellow color, like that of buttermilk.

Examples

  • Buttermilk is no longer popular in the United States.

  • What's the difference between milk and buttermilk?

At a glance

Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

Senses
4
Parts of speech
1
Citations
1

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. Cultured buttermilk, a fermented dairy product produced from cow's milk, with a characteristically sour taste.

  2. The liquid left over after producing butter from full cream milk by the churning process, also called traditional buttermilk.

More examples

In context

  • Do you have some buttermilk?

  • An anti-aphrodisiac, suggested in Hindu erotological literature as a way for women to negate amatory challenges, is to bathe in the buttermilk of a she-buffalo.

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Origin

noun

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”).