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buttermilk|ˈbʌtəmɪlk|
[cf. Ger. buttermilch.]
a. The acidulous milk which remains after the butter has been churned out.
1528Paynell Salerne's Regim. G b, Butter mylke..Nothynge nourisheth more than this mylke whan hit is newe sopped vp with newe hotte breadde. 1586Cogan Haven Health cxcvi. (1636) 181 Of the making of Butter is left a kinde of whey, which they commonly call Butter milke, or soure milke. 1611Cotgr., Laict esburré, butter-milke, churnd milke. a1674Clarendon Hist. Reb. III. xiii. 322 The poor Man had nothing for him to eat, but promised him good Butter-milk. 1727Swift State Irel. V. ii. 167 The families of farmers, who pay great rents, living in filth and nastiness upon buttermilk and potatoes. 1861Hulme tr. Moquin-Tandon, ii. iii. 190 Butter-milk..contains all the elements of the milk, but only a very little caseum, and a large proportion of butyric acid.
b. fig.
1719D'Urfey Pills III. 47 So many Blades now rant in Silk, At first did spring from Butter-milk, Their Ancestors worth nothing. 1794J. Wolcott (P. Pindar) Wks. III. 188 Whose soul is butter-milk, and song is love.
c. attrib. Also quasi-adj. in buttermilk land U.S.
1616Wily Beguiled in Hazl. Dodsl. IX. 285 But he has such a butter-milk face, that she'll never have him. 1633Massinger New Way, &c. ii. iii, This most incredible lie would call up one [blush] On thy buttermilk cheeks. 1843‘R. Carlton’ New Purchase ix. 58 They had been sufficiently fortunate as to get a taste of ‘buttermilk land’—‘spouty land’. 1918J. Galsworthy Let. 9 Aug. in E. V. Lucas Post-Bag Div. (1934) 70 Do you think..that this shows..that I ate too much of Mrs. Endacott's butter-milk bread? |