buttermilk

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Etymology

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

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buttermilk (countable and uncountable, plural buttermilks)

  1. The liquid left over after producing butter from full cream milk by the churning process, also called traditional buttermilk.
  2. Cultured buttermilk, a fermented dairy product produced from cow's milk, with a characteristically sour taste.
  3. A light yellow color, like that of buttermilk. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
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