Definition of BUTTERMILK

buttermilk

Meanings

Plural: buttermilks

Noun

  • residue from making butter from sour raw milk; or pasteurized milk curdled by adding a culture
  • 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.
  • A light yellow color, like that of buttermilk.

Origin / Etymology

Inherited from Middle English butter-melke, equivalent to butter + milk. Cognate with German Low German Bottermelk (“buttermilk”), German Buttermilch (“buttermilk”).

Scrabble Score: 18

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Words With Friends Score: 22

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