wheyn.

Brit.

/weɪ/, U.S.

/(h)weɪ/

Forms: Old English hwæg, hweg, hwæig, Middle English weȝe, wei, hwey, Middle English qwhey, Middle English wheye, Middle English–1500s way, Middle English–1600s (1800s dialect) whay, 1500s qway, quay, Scottish quhay(e, 1500s–1600s whaye, wey, 1800s dialect whew, Middle English– whey.

Etymology: Old English hwæg, hweg = Old Frisian *wei, (West Frisian waei, North Frisian wâi, East Frisian wôi), Middle Dutch wey (Dutch wei, Low German wei, waje) < Old Germanic *χwajo-, of which an ablaut-variant is found in Middle Low German huy, hoie (Low German hui, hoi, Dutch hui) < *χujo-.

a. The serum or watery part of milk which remains after the separation of the curd by coagulation, esp. in the manufacture of cheese.

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the world > food and drink > food > dairy produce > [noun] > milk > whey

wheyc725

goat's wheya1400

whig1528

goat whey1655

thrutching?1748

thrustings1794

white whey1837

thrust1877

alum whey1883

c725 Corpus Gloss. (Hessels) S 272 Serum, hwæg.

a1050 Rect. Sing. Pers. §14 (Liebermann) 451 Sceaphyrdes riht is, þæt he hæbbe..blede fulle hweges oððe syringe ealne sumor.

12.. Sidonius Glosses (Anecd. Oxon.) I. v. 34/3 Hoc serum, i. weȝe.

a1250 Owl & Night. (Cotton MS.) 1009 Hi drinkeþ milc & wei [Jesus MS. hwey] þar to.

13.. in T. Wright & J. O. Halliwell Reliquiæ Antiquæ (1845) I. 9/2 Cerum, i. quidam liquor, qwhey.

c1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 200 A purgacioun with gotis whey.

c1430 Two Cookery-bks. 56 Take croddys of þe deye, & wryng owt þe whey.

c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) vi. 34 Thai maid grit cheir of..curdis and quhaye.

1587 L. Mascall Bk. Cattell: Oxen (1596) 56 See..that your cheese be well and close gathered, in pressing foorth cleane all the whay.

1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique i. xiv. 90 The whaie may serue for the feeding of the hogs and dogs.

1732 J. Arbuthnot Pract. Rules of Diet i. 252 Of all Drinks, Whey is the most relaxing.

1791 W. Scott Let. 26 Aug. (1932) I. 19 My uncle drinks the whey here, as I do ever since I understood it was brought to his bedside every morning at six, by a very pretty dairy-maid.

1893 J. P. Sheldon Brit. Dairying xv. 163 On dairy farms where cheese and butter are made, pigs are useful to consume whey and skim-milk.

b. with qualification: whey of butter, buttermilk; alum whey, whey formed in the coagulation of milk by powdered alum; celery whey, wine whey, names of beverages or medicinal drinks; white whey (see quot. 1837). See also mustard whey n. at mustard n. and adj. Compounds 2, sack-whey n. at sack n.³ Compounds 4.

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the world > food and drink > food > dairy produce > [noun] > milk > buttermilk

sweet milka1475

buttermilka1500

whey of butter1530

kirn-milkc1550

lap1567

churn-milk1598

whig1688

souter's brandy1790

the world > food and drink > drink > milk drinks > [noun]

rice milk1620

whig1684

leban1695

saloop1728

sack-whey1736

celery whey1761

mustard whey1769

wine whey1769

Scotch chocolate1785

whey-whig1811

chocolate milk1819

horchata1859

tamarind-whey1883

milk shake1886

Horlick1891

lassi1894

Ovaltine1906

shake1909

malt1942

malted1945

the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines of specific form > medicinal potion or draught > [noun] > specific

barley waterc1320

metheglinc1450

wood-drink1611

nectarine1628

nectar1684

mechoacan-ale1696

clary-wine1727

celery whey1761

mustard whey1769

tar-beer1857

treacle-posset1876

the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > wine > types of wine > [noun] > medicinal wine

viper-wine1631

mandrake winea1640

wine whey1769

mandragora1844

tonic wine1899

Sanatogen1924

the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines of specific form > medicinal potion or draught > [noun] > medicated wine > specific

opopanax wine?1550

mandrake winea1640

white wine whey1718

sack-whey1736

oporice1753

ipecacuanha wine1761

wine whey1769

antimonial wine1771

balm-winea1811

mandragora1844

lizard wine1894

the world > food and drink > food > dairy produce > [noun] > milk > whey

wheyc725

goat's wheya1400

whig1528

goat whey1655

thrutching?1748

thrustings1794

white whey1837

thrust1877

alum whey1883

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 288/1 Whay of butter, babeure.

1733 G. Cheyne Eng. Malady iii. i. 268 To drink plentifully of small Sack Whey, or Water-Gruel.

1761 J. Wesley Primitive Physick (ed. 9) 80 Drink half a Pint of Cellary-whey.

1769 E. Raffald Experienced Eng. House-keeper xiv. 291 To make Wine Whey. Put a Pint of skimmed Milk, and half a Pint of White Wine into a Bason.

1784 J. Potter Virtuous Villagers II. 88 Wine and mustard wheys.

1837 Brit. Husbandry (Libr. Useful Knowl.) II. 424 That which is pressed by hand from the curd, is termed ‘white whey’, and contains a considerable portion of oily matter.

1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits xiv. 246 The making a better sick chair and a better wine-whey for an invalid.

1883 I. Banks Forbidden to Marry viii To prepare a whey of alum-and-milk.

†2. The serum of the blood. Obsolete.

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the world > life > the body > vascular system > blood > components of blood > [noun] > serum

whey1578

serosity1601

ichor1638

serum1672

albumen1683

blood serum1834

1578 J. Banister Hist. Man v. f. 82 The whay of bloud ought by the reynes to be strayned out.

1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 95 The whey is deriued by the vreters into the bladder.

1718 J. Chamberlayne tr. B. Nieuwentyt Relig. Philosopher I. v. §4 The afore~mention'd Food mixes itself with another Humour, Water, or Whey, which the Anatomists call the Lympha.

3. as adj. Whey-coloured (cf. whey beard n. at Compounds 1d(a)).

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the world > life > the body > hair > hair on lower part of face > [adjective] > beard > types of

tatty1513

writhledc1600

whey-colour1602

Cain-coloureda1616

whey1663

shag-rag1868

Jesus1938

1663 S. Butler Hudibras: First Pt. i. i. 18 His tawny Beard..The upper part thereof was Whey, The nether Orange mixt with Gray.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

whey-bath n.

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1888 W. F. Rae Austrian Health Resorts viii. 169 The spoiled daughters of luxury..indulge in whey baths.

whey-colour n.

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the world > matter > colour > named colours > white or whiteness > [noun] > off-white or dirty white

sheep's-colour1551

whey-colour1662

sullied white1681

crash1927

off-white1927

natural1930

1662 R. Venables Experienc'd Angler ix. 89 When..the river..looketh of a whay colour.

1684 J. Smith Profit & Pleasure United 171 If the weather be dark or Whey-colour.

1845 G. P. R. James Arrah Neil I. ii. 20 That indistinct hue which may be called whey colour.

whey-curd n.

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1591 R. Percyvall Bibliotheca Hispanica Dict. at Requeson Whey cruds.

whey-house n.

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1663 S. Pepys Diary 10 June (1971) IV. 179 To the Royal Theatre... Thence to the Whay-house and drank a great deal of Whay.

whey-pot n.

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14.. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 624/4 Whey i. olla whey potte.

whey-tub n.

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1813 T. Rudge Gen. View Agric. Glouc. 299 Butter-milk..is sometimes saved in the whey-tub.

whey-drinker n.

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1716 E. Baynard Health 19 Such Tormenters never Rages, 'Mong Whey-drinkers in poor Cottages.

c. Adjectives.

whey-colour adj. (also whey-coloured)

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the world > life > the body > skin > complexion > paleness > [adjective]

blatec1000

whiteOE

greena1275

blakec1275

bleykea1300

wana1300

palec1330

bleach1340

pale and wan (wan and pale)c1374

colourlessc1380

deadlyc1385

deadc1386

bloodlessc1450

earthlyc1460

ruddylessc1460

wan visaged?a1513

wanny1555

as pale or white as a clout1557

bleak1566

mealy1566

pale-faced1570

ghastly1574

white-faced1577

bleakish1581

pallid1590

whiggish1590

tallow-faced1592

maid-pale1597

lily1600

whey-colour1602

lew1611

roseless1611

Hippocratical1615

cadaverousa1661

Hippocratic1681

smock-faced1684

white-looked1690

livid1728

as white (or pale) as a sheet1752

squalid1753

deathly1791

etiolated1791

light-skinned1802

suety1803

shilpit1813

blanched1828

tallowy1830

suet-faced1834

pasty1836

tallowish1838

whey-faced1847

pasty-faced1848

aghast1850

waxen1853

complexionless1863

light-skin1877

lily-cheeked1877

lardy1879

wan-faced1881

exsanguinous1889

wheatish1950

the world > life > the body > hair > hair on lower part of face > [adjective] > beard > types of

tatty1513

writhledc1600

whey-colour1602

Cain-coloureda1616

whey1663

shag-rag1868

Jesus1938

1602 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor i. iv. 20 I take it hee is somewhat a weakly man: And he has as it were a whay coloured beard.

1726 Learned Diss. Dumpling 16 A goodly Whey-colour'd Beard.

1836 A. Combe Physiol. Digestion i. v A semi-transparent whey-coloured fluid.

whey-hued adj.

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a1915 J. Joyce Giacomo Joyce (1968) 2 Smitten by the hot creamy light, grey wheyhued shadows under the jawbones.

whey-like adj.

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1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) IV. 174 A whey-like juice.

1822 J. M. Good Study Med. II. 189 Whey-like urine.

whey-sour adj.

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1922 J. Joyce Ulysses i. ii. [Nestor] 28 With her weak blood and wheysour milk she had fed him.

d. In reference to the pale colour of whey.

(a)

whey beard n.

whey countenance n.

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the world > life > the body > skin > complexion > paleness > [noun] > of face

wana1300

ashc1374

tallow-face1597

whey countenance1604

lily1713

suet face1896

1604 T. Middleton Blacke Bk. E 1 b A whay countenance, short stooppes, and earthen dampish-voyce.

whey face n.

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the world > life > the body > skin > complexion > paleness > [noun] > person

tallow-face1597

smock-face1605

whey facea1616

light-skin1935

a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) v. iii. 19 Macb...What Soldiers, Patch?.. What Soldiers Whay-face? Ser. The English Force, so please you.

1753 J. Collier Ess. Art of Tormenting i. ii. 46 If her complexion is fair, call her Whey-face.

1824 M. R. Mitford Our Village I. 239 A little..man, with a Jerry-Sneak expression in his pale whey-face.

(b) Adjectives.

whey-bearded adj.

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the world > life > the body > hair > hair on lower part of face > [adjective] > beard > types of > having

long-beardedc1400

red-bearded1552

white-bearded1555

whey-bearded1556

grey-bearded1562

black-bearded1577

barbatulousc1600

bush-bearded1615

big-bearded1620

sand-beardeda1641

goateed1847

brown-bearded1882

peach fuzz1932

peach-fuzzed1956

1556 N. Grimald tr. Cicero Thre Bks. Duties i. f. 46^v As soone as he waxed wheyberded.

whey-pale adj.

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1916 J. Joyce Portrait of Artist v. 226 He saw in a moment the student's whey pale face.

1978 H. Wouk War & Remembrance xiii. 129 Ascher's whey-pale face wanly lit up at the comparison.

C2.

whey-bacon n. bacon from a whey-pig.

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the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > pork > [noun] > bacon > types of

chimney-bacon1566

rust1641

whey-bacona1722

Wiltshire1794

slab bacon1932

a1722 E. Lisle Observ. Husbandry (1757) 431 The latter end of November or December, when all the whey-bacon is gone.

whey-beard n. (a) a person having a ‘whey beard’; (b) the whitethroat, Sylvia cinerea.

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the world > life > the body > hair > hair on lower part of face > [noun] > beard > types of > person having

greybeard1207

whitebeard1450

redbeard1607

whey-beard1614

longbeard1665

the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > family Muscicapidae (thrushes, etc.) > subfamily Sylviidae (warbler) > [noun] > genus Sylvia > sylvia communis (whitethroat)

whey-beard1614

glut1661

muff1661

whitethroat1673

nettle-monger1712

whitethroat warbler1817

whey-bird1825

muggy1829

nettle-tom1830

muffit1837

mufty1837

nettle creeper1845

feather-bed1854

jackstraw1879

feather-bird1885

mealy-mouth1885

miller1885

muffya1886

1614 R. Tailor Hogge hath lost Pearle iv. F 3 b Father whay-beard.

1647 W. Lilly Christian Astrol. xv. 84 He is leane, crooked, or beetle-browed, a thin whay Beard.

1831 J. Rennie Montagu's Ornithol. Dict. (ed. 2) 533 Whey beard, a name for the White Throat.

whey-bird n. the woodlark, Alauda arborea; also = whey-beard n. (b).

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the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > non-arboreal (larks, etc.) > [noun] > family Alaudidae > genus Alauda > alauda arborea (woodlark)

woodlarkc1325

whey-bird1825

the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > family Muscicapidae (thrushes, etc.) > subfamily Sylviidae (warbler) > [noun] > genus Sylvia > sylvia communis (whitethroat)

whey-beard1614

glut1661

muff1661

whitethroat1673

nettle-monger1712

whitethroat warbler1817

whey-bird1825

muggy1829

nettle-tom1830

muffit1837

mufty1837

nettle creeper1845

feather-bed1854

jackstraw1879

feather-bird1885

mealy-mouth1885

miller1885

muffya1886

1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. Whey-bird, the wood-lark,..Lanarks.

1862 C. A. Johns Brit. Birds 625 Whey-bird, the Whitethroat.

† whey-blooded adj. Obsolete cowardly.

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the mind > emotion > fear > cowardice or pusillanimity > [adjective]

arghc885

heartlessOE

bloodlessc1225

coward1297

faintc1300

nesha1382

comfortless1387

pusillanimousa1425

faint-heartedc1440

unheartyc1440

cowardous1480

hen-hearteda1529

cowardish1530

feigningc1540

white-livered1546

cowardly1551

faceless1567

pusillanime1570

liver-hearted1571

cowish1579

cowardise1582

coward-like1587

faint-heart1590

courageless1593

sheep-like1596

white-hearted1598

milky1602

milk-livered1608

undaring1611

lily-livereda1616

yarrow1616

flightful1626

chicken-hearted1629

poltroon1649

cow-hearted1660

whey-blooded1675

unbravea1681

nimble-heeled1719

dunghill1775

shrimp-hearted1796

chicken-livered1804

white-feathered1816

pluckless1821

chicken-spirited1822

milk-blooded1822

cowardy1836

yellow1856

yellow-livered1857

putty-hearted1872

uncourageous1878

chicken1883

piker1901

yellow-bellied1907

manso1932

scaredy-cat1933

chickenshit1940

cold-footed1944

1675 T. Duffett Mock-tempest i. i. 2 The Whey-Blooded Rogue looks as if his heart were melted into his Breeches.

† whey-brained adj. Obsolete weak-brained.

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the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupidity, dullness of intellect > [adjective]

sloweOE

stuntc960

dullOE

hardOE

stuntlyc1000

sotc1050

dillc1175

dulta1225

simplea1325

heavy1340

astonedc1374

sheepishc1380

dull-witteda1387

lourd1390

steerishc1411

ass-likea1425

brainless?a1439

deafc1440

sluggishc1450

short-witted1477

obtuse1509

peakish1519

wearish1519

deaf, or dumb as a beetle1520

doileda1522

gross1526

headlessa1530

stulty1532

ass-headed1533

pot-headed1533

stupid?1541

sheep's head1542

doltish1543

dumpish1545

assish1548

blockish1548

slow-witted1548

blockheaded1549

surd1551

dull-headed1552

hammer-headed1552

skit-brained?1553

buzzardly1561

witless1562

log-headeda1566

assy1566

sottish1566

dastardly1567

stupidious1567

beetle-headed1570

calvish1570

bluntish1578

cod's-headed1578

grout-headed1578

bedaft1579

dull-pated1580

blate1581

buzzard-like1581

long-eared1582

dullard1583

woodena1586

duncical1588

leaden-headed1589

buzzard1592

dorbellical1592

dunstical1592

heavy-headeda1593

shallow-brained1592

blunt-witted1594

mossy1597

Bœotian1598

clay-brained1598

fat1598

fat-witted1598

knotty-pated1598

stupidous1598

wit-lost1599

barren1600

duncifiedc1600

lourdish1600

stockish1600

thick1600

booby1603

leaden-pated1603

partless1603

thin-headed1603

leaden-skulledc1604

blockhead1606

frost-brained1606

ram-headed1608

beef-witted1609

insulse1609

leaden-spirited1609

asininec1610

clumse1611

blockheadly1612

wattle-headed1613

flata1616

logger-headeda1616

puppy-headeda1616

shallow-patedc1616

thick-brained1619

half-headed1621

buzzard-blinda1625

beef-brained1628

toom-headed1629

thick-witted1634

woollen-witted1635

squirrel-headed1637

clod-pated1639

lean-souled1639

muddy-headed1642

leaden-witteda1645

as sad as any mallet1645

under-headed1646

fat-headed1647

half-witted1647

insipid1651

insulsate1652

soft-headed1653

thick-skulleda1657

muddish1658

non-intelligent1659

whey-brained1660

sap-headed1665

timber-headed1666

leather-headeda1668

out of (one's) tree1669

boobily1673

thoughtless1673

lourdly1674

logger1675

unintelligenta1676

Bœotic1678

chicken-brained1678

under-witted1683

loggerhead1684

dunderheaded1692

unintelligible1694

buffle-headed1697

crassicc1700

numbskulled1707

crassous1708

doddy-polled1708

haggis-headed1715

niddy-noddy1722

muzzy1723

pudding-headed1726

sumphish1728

pitcher-souleda1739

duncey1743

hebete1743

chuckheaded1756

dumb1756

duncely1757

imbecile1766

mutton-headed1768

chuckle-headed1770

jobbernowl1770

dowfarta1774

boobyish1778

wittol1780

staumrel1787

opaquec1789

stoopid1791

mud-headed1793

borné1795

muzzy-headed1798

nog-headed1800

thick-headed1801

gypit1804

duncish1805

lightweight1809

numbskull1814

tup-headed1816

chuckle-pate1820

unintellectuala1821

dense1822

ninnyish1822

dunch1825

fozy1825

potato-headed1826

beef-headed1828

donkeyish1831

blockheadish1833

pinheaded1837

squirrel-minded1837

pumpkin-headed1838

tomfoolish1838

dundering1840

chicken-headed1842

like a bump on a log1842

ninny-minded1849

numbheadeda1852

nincompoopish1852

suet-brained1852

dolly1853

mullet-headed1853

sodden1853

fiddle-headed1854

numb1854

bovine1855

logy1859

crass1861

unsmart1861

off his chump1864

wooden-headed1865

stupe1866

lean-minded1867

duffing1869

cretinous1871

doddering1871

thick-head1873

doddling1874

stupido1879

boneheaded1883

woolly-headed1883

leaden-natured1889

suet-headed1890

sam-sodden1891

dopey1896

turnip-headed1898

bonehead1903

wool-witted1905

peanut-headed1906

peanut-brained1907

dilly1909

torpid-minded1909

retardate1912

nitwitted1917

meat-headed1918

mug1922

cloth-headed1925

loopy1925

nitwit1928

lame-brained1929

dead from the neck up1930

simpy1932

nail-headed1936

square-headed1936

dingbats1937

pinhead1939

dim-witted1940

pea-brained1942

clueless1943

lobotomized1943

retarded1949

pointy-headed1950

clottish1952

like a stunned mullet1953

silly (or crazy) as a two-bob watch1954

out to lunch1955

pin-brained1958

dozy1959

eejity1964

out of one's tiny mind1965

doofus1967

twitty1967

twittish1969

twatty1975

twattish1976

blur1977

dof1979

goofus1981

dickheaded1991

dickish1991

numpty1992

cockish1996

1660 J. Tatham Rump i. i A Whey-brain'd fellow.

whey-brose n. brose made with whey instead of water.

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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > soup or pottage > [noun] > other soups

breec1000

mortressc1387

cretone?a1400

mortrelc1400

primrosea1450

water-kale?a1500

white broth?1537

plum broth1614

mutton broth1615

veal brotha1625

nettle-kale?c1625

China-broth1628

bisque1647

beer-broth1648

dilligrout1662

nativity broth1674

sowdyc1700

mandarin broth1701

white soup1708

soup-vermicell1724

soup-meagre1733

burgoo1743

sago-gruel1743

soup maigre1754

vermicelli soup1769

vermicelli1771

noodle soup1779

mock turtle soup1783

pepper-water1783

mulligatawny1784

powsowdie1787

macaroni soup1789

bird's nest soup1806

smiggins1825

garbure1829

pish-pash1834

laksa1846

sancocho1851

ajiaco1856

pepper soup1860

liquorice-soup1864

mock turtle1876

borsch1884

petite marmite1890

whey-brose1894

rassolnik1899

lokshen soup1900

menudo1904

hoosh1905

sinigang1912

waterzooi1915

Cullen Skink1916

swallow's nest soup1920

mizutaki1933

rasam1933

pasta fazool1935

pho1935

pasta fagioli1951

stracciatella1954

solyanka1958

tom yam1960

mannish water1968

pasta e fagioli1968

ribollita1968

tom yam kung1969

the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > soup or pottage > porridges > [noun] > brose

frumenty?c1390

frumenta1513

drammock1563

brose1657

crowdie1668

pease brose1811

browis1831

whey-brose1894

siot1936

1894 W. D. Latto Tammas Bodkin: Swatches o' Hodden-Grey viii The whey-brose was perfection.

whey-butter n. butter made from whey or from whey-cream.

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the world > food and drink > food > dairy produce > butter > [noun] > types of butter

May-butter?a1425

clarified butter1562

pot-butter1616

manteca1622

grass butter1648

green butter1654

drawn butter1661

cacao butter1662

ghee1665

rowen1673

ruskin1679

orange butter1696

whey-buttera1722

rowen butter1725

fairy butter1747

grease1788

Cambridge butter1830

stubble-butter1856

black jack1858

maître d'hôtel butter1861

Normandy butter1868

creamery butter1881

pound butter1888

renovated butter1888

samn1888

process butter1898

pool butter1940

garlic butter1942

yak butter1962

Normandy1973

cannabutter1994

a1722 E. Lisle Observ. Husbandry (1757) 406 They skimmed the cream off to make whey-butter.

1846 H. White in J. Baxter Libr. Pract. Agric. (ed. 4) I. 211 The quantity of whey-butter per cow is about half a pound per week.

whey-cream n. the cream which remains in the whey after the curd has been removed.

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the world > food and drink > food > dairy produce > [noun] > cream > other types of cream

whig1528

tuftaffety cream1661

whey-cream1742

coffee cream1868

crème fraîche1936

1742 W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman June xiv. 170 When Butter is wholly made with Whey-cream, it is then justly named Whey-butter.

whey-drop n. a hole in an imperfectly pressed cheese in which the whey collects.

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the world > food and drink > food > dairy produce > cheese > [noun] > defects in cheese

eyea1387

lazar1573

whey-spring1784

whey-drop1811

whey-eye1811

rusty spot1899

red spot1903

1811 W. Aiton Gen. View Agric. Ayr 452 (Jam.) Putrifying holes, which, in the dairy language of Ayrshire, are termed whey-drops.

whey-eye n. a hole in an imperfectly pressed cheese in which the whey collects.

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the world > food and drink > food > dairy produce > cheese > [noun] > defects in cheese

eyea1387

lazar1573

whey-spring1784

whey-drop1811

whey-eye1811

rusty spot1899

red spot1903

1811 W. Aiton Gen. View Agric. Ayr 455 (Jam.) Whey-springs, or eyes, are seldom met with in the cheeses of Ayrshire.

whey-face n. a person having a pale face.

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1649 W. Davenant Love & Honour iv. iv. 20 Marke, sir, that whey-fac'd fellow in the red.

1697 M. Prior Epist. to F. Shephard 49 That sneaking Whey-fac'd God Apollo.

1753 S. Foote Englishman in Paris i. 15 One whey-fac'd Son of a Bitch..call'd me Bête.

whey-faced adj.

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the world > life > the body > skin > complexion > paleness > [adjective]

blatec1000

whiteOE

greena1275

blakec1275

bleykea1300

wana1300

palec1330

bleach1340

pale and wan (wan and pale)c1374

colourlessc1380

deadlyc1385

deadc1386

bloodlessc1450

earthlyc1460

ruddylessc1460

wan visaged?a1513

wanny1555

as pale or white as a clout1557

bleak1566

mealy1566

pale-faced1570

ghastly1574

white-faced1577

bleakish1581

pallid1590

whiggish1590

tallow-faced1592

maid-pale1597

lily1600

whey-colour1602

lew1611

roseless1611

Hippocratical1615

cadaverousa1661

Hippocratic1681

smock-faced1684

white-looked1690

livid1728

as white (or pale) as a sheet1752

squalid1753

deathly1791

etiolated1791

light-skinned1802

suety1803

shilpit1813

blanched1828

tallowy1830

suet-faced1834

pasty1836

tallowish1838

whey-faced1847

pasty-faced1848

aghast1850

waxen1853

complexionless1863

light-skin1877

lily-cheeked1877

lardy1879

wan-faced1881

exsanguinous1889

wheatish1950

1847 C. Brontë Jane Eyre II. ii. 52 Your tutor, whey-faced Mr. Vining.

wheygoose n. used as a term of opprobrium.Apparently an isolated use.

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1949 C. Fry Lady's not for Burning i. 8 What shall I do With this nattering wheygoose, Alizon? Shall I knock him down?

whey-lead n. see lead n.¹ 5.

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1876 R. Jefferies in Fraser's Mag. Nov. 657/1 Against one wall are the whey-leads.

whey-pig n. a pig fed with whey.

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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > order Artiodactyla (cloven-hoofed animals) > pig > [noun] > defined by eating habits

whey-pig1585

rooter1607

shock pig1759

1585 J. Higgins tr. Junius Nomenclator 51/1 Porcus serarius,..a whey pig.

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whey-porridge n. porridge made with whey instead of water.

whey-spring n. = whey-drop n.

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the world > food and drink > food > dairy produce > cheese > [noun] > defects in cheese

eyea1387

lazar1573

whey-spring1784

whey-drop1811

whey-eye1811

rusty spot1899

red spot1903

1784 J. Twamley Dairying Exemplified 13 Faults..in Cheese such as..Whey Springs.

1811 [see whey-drop n.].

whey-whig n. a beverage made of whey flavoured with herbs.

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the world > food and drink > drink > milk drinks > [noun]

rice milk1620

whig1684

leban1695

saloop1728

sack-whey1736

celery whey1761

mustard whey1769

wine whey1769

Scotch chocolate1785

whey-whig1811

chocolate milk1819

horchata1859

tamarind-whey1883

milk shake1886

Horlick1891

lassi1894

Ovaltine1906

shake1909

malt1942

malted1945

1811 R. Willan in Archaeologia 17 163 Whey-Whig, whey impregnated with mint, balm, and walnut leaves.

whey-worm n. see quot. 1828; figurative a whim.

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the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > inconstancy > [noun] > capriciousness > a caprice or whim

fantasya1450

wantonness1531

humour1533

worm?a1534

will1542

toy?1545

whey-worm1548

wild worm1548

freak1563

crotchet1573

fancy1579

whim-wham1580

whirligig1589

caper1592

megrim1593

spleen1594

kicksey-winsey1599

fegary1600

humorousness1604

curiosity1605

conundrum1607

whimsy1607

windmill1612

buzza1616

capriccioa1616

quirka1616

flama1625

maggota1625

fantasticality1631

capruch1634

gimcrack1639

whimseycado1654

caprich1656

excursion1662

frisk1665

caprice1673

fita1680

grub1681

fantasque1697

whim1697

frolic1711

flight1717

whigmaleery1730

vagary1753

maddock1787

kink1803

fizgig1824

fad1834

whimmery1837

fantod1839

brain crack1853

whimsy-whamsy1871

tic1896

tick1900

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > suppuration > [noun] > a suppuration > abscess > boil > pustule

bladderc1000

whelkc1000

pustulea1398

pusha1400

pustulation?a1425

whealc1440

pust1527

burble1555

quat1597

pouk1601

bube1608

bub1612

crystal1661

blotch1669

epinyctis1676

phlyzacium1693

varus1756

stone-pock1818

whey-worm1828

1548 Hall's Vnion: Edward IV f. ccxxij The Essex men hauynge wylde whaye wormes in their heddes.

1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Whey-worms, pimples, from which exudes a wheylike moisture.

whey-wormed adj. marked with whey-worms.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > suppuration > [adjective] > abscess > boil > pustule

pustulate?a1425

pustuled?a1425

whey-wormeda1529

pustulous1543

pustulent1607

pustulated1666

pustular1716

whelky1822

psydracious1829

phlyzacious1830

papulopustular1843

pustuliform1846

pustulant1895

a1529 J. Skelton Tunnyng of Elynour Rummyng in Certayne Bks. (?1545) 553 A sory face Wheywormed about.

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单词	whey
释义	wheyn. Brit. /weɪ/, U.S. /(h)weɪ/ Forms: Old English hwæg, hweg, hwæig, Middle English weȝe, wei, hwey, Middle English qwhey, Middle English wheye, Middle English–1500s way, Middle English–1600s (1800s dialect) whay, 1500s qway, quay, Scottish quhay(e, 1500s–1600s whaye, wey, 1800s dialect whew, Middle English– whey. Etymology: Old English hwæg, hweg = Old Frisian wei, (West Frisian waei, North Frisian wâi, East Frisian wôi), Middle Dutch wey* (Dutch wei, Low German wei, waje) < Old Germanic χwajo-, of which an ablaut-variant is found in Middle Low German huy, hoie* (Low German hui, hoi, Dutch hui) < χujo-. 1. a. The serum or watery part of milk which remains after the separation of the curd by coagulation, esp. in the manufacture of cheese. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dairy produce > [noun] > milk > whey wheyc725 goat's wheya1400 whig1528 goat whey1655 thrutching?1748 thrustings1794 white whey1837 thrust1877 alum whey1883 c725 Corpus Gloss.* (Hessels) S 272 Serum, hwæg. a1050 Rect. Sing. Pers. §14 (Liebermann) 451 Sceaphyrdes riht is, þæt he hæbbe..blede fulle hweges oððe syringe ealne sumor. 12.. Sidonius Glosses (Anecd. Oxon.) I. v. 34/3 Hoc serum, i. weȝe. a1250 Owl & Night. (Cotton MS.) 1009 Hi drinkeþ milc & wei [Jesus MS. hwey] þar to. 13.. in T. Wright & J. O. Halliwell Reliquiæ Antiquæ (1845) I. 9/2 Cerum, i. quidam liquor, qwhey. c1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 200 A purgacioun with gotis whey. c1430 Two Cookery-bks. 56 Take croddys of þe deye, & wryng owt þe whey. c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) vi. 34 Thai maid grit cheir of..curdis and quhaye. 1587 L. Mascall Bk. Cattell: Oxen (1596) 56 See..that your cheese be well and close gathered, in pressing foorth cleane all the whay. 1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique i. xiv. 90 The whaie may serue for the feeding of the hogs and dogs. 1732 J. Arbuthnot Pract. Rules of Diet i. 252 Of all Drinks, Whey is the most relaxing. 1791 W. Scott Let. 26 Aug. (1932) I. 19 My uncle drinks the whey here, as I do ever since I understood it was brought to his bedside every morning at six, by a very pretty dairy-maid. 1893 J. P. Sheldon Brit. Dairying xv. 163 On dairy farms where cheese and butter are made, pigs are useful to consume whey and skim-milk. b. with qualification: whey of butter, buttermilk; alum whey, whey formed in the coagulation of milk by powdered alum; celery whey, wine whey, names of beverages or medicinal drinks; white whey (see quot. 1837). See also mustard whey n. at mustard n. and adj. Compounds 2, sack-whey n. at sack n.³ Compounds 4. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dairy produce > [noun] > milk > buttermilk sweet milka1475 buttermilka1500 whey of butter1530 kirn-milkc1550 lap1567 churn-milk1598 whig1688 souter's brandy1790 the world > food and drink > drink > milk drinks > [noun] rice milk1620 whig1684 leban1695 saloop1728 sack-whey1736 celery whey1761 mustard whey1769 wine whey1769 Scotch chocolate1785 whey-whig1811 chocolate milk1819 horchata1859 tamarind-whey1883 milk shake1886 Horlick1891 lassi1894 Ovaltine1906 shake1909 malt1942 malted1945 the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines of specific form > medicinal potion or draught > [noun] > specific barley waterc1320 metheglinc1450 wood-drink1611 nectarine1628 nectar1684 mechoacan-ale1696 clary-wine1727 celery whey1761 mustard whey1769 tar-beer1857 treacle-posset1876 the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > wine > types of wine > [noun] > medicinal wine viper-wine1631 mandrake winea1640 wine whey1769 mandragora1844 tonic wine1899 Sanatogen1924 the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines of specific form > medicinal potion or draught > [noun] > medicated wine > specific opopanax wine?1550 mandrake winea1640 white wine whey1718 sack-whey1736 oporice1753 ipecacuanha wine1761 wine whey1769 antimonial wine1771 balm-winea1811 mandragora1844 lizard wine1894 the world > food and drink > food > dairy produce > [noun] > milk > whey wheyc725 goat's wheya1400 whig1528 goat whey1655 thrutching?1748 thrustings1794 white whey1837 thrust1877 alum whey1883 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 288/1 Whay of butter, babeure. 1733 G. Cheyne Eng. Malady iii. i. 268 To drink plentifully of small Sack Whey, or Water-Gruel. 1761 J. Wesley Primitive Physick (ed. 9) 80 Drink half a Pint of Cellary-whey. 1769 E. Raffald Experienced Eng. House-keeper xiv. 291 To make Wine Whey. Put a Pint of skimmed Milk, and half a Pint of White Wine into a Bason. 1784 J. Potter Virtuous Villagers II. 88 Wine and mustard wheys. 1837 Brit. Husbandry (Libr. Useful Knowl.) II. 424 That which is pressed by hand from the curd, is termed ‘white whey’, and contains a considerable portion of oily matter. 1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits xiv. 246 The making a better sick chair and a better wine-whey for an invalid. 1883 I. Banks Forbidden to Marry viii To prepare a whey of alum-and-milk. †2. The serum of the blood. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > vascular system > blood > components of blood > [noun] > serum whey1578 serosity1601 ichor1638 serum1672 albumen1683 blood serum1834 1578 J. Banister Hist. Man v. f. 82 The whay of bloud ought by the reynes to be strayned out. 1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 95 The whey is deriued by the vreters into the bladder. 1718 J. Chamberlayne tr. B. Nieuwentyt Relig. Philosopher I. v. §4 The afore~mention'd Food mixes itself with another Humour, Water, or Whey, which the Anatomists call the Lympha. 3. as adj. Whey-coloured (cf. whey beard n. at Compounds 1d(a)). ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > hair > hair on lower part of face > [adjective] > beard > types of tatty1513 writhledc1600 whey-colour1602 Cain-coloureda1616 whey1663 shag-rag1868 Jesus1938 1663 S. Butler Hudibras: First Pt. i. i. 18 His tawny Beard..The upper part thereof was Whey, The nether Orange mixt with Gray. Compounds C1. General attributive. a. whey-bath n. ΚΠ 1888 W. F. Rae Austrian Health Resorts viii. 169 The spoiled daughters of luxury..indulge in whey baths. whey-colour n. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > white or whiteness > [noun] > off-white or dirty white sheep's-colour1551 whey-colour1662 sullied white1681 crash1927 off-white1927 natural1930 1662 R. Venables Experienc'd Angler ix. 89 When..the river..looketh of a whay colour. 1684 J. Smith Profit & Pleasure United 171 If the weather be dark or Whey-colour. 1845 G. P. R. James Arrah Neil I. ii. 20 That indistinct hue which may be called whey colour. whey-curd n. ΚΠ 1591 R. Percyvall Bibliotheca Hispanica Dict. at Requeson Whey cruds. whey-house n. ΚΠ 1663 S. Pepys Diary 10 June (1971) IV. 179 To the Royal Theatre... Thence to the Whay-house and drank a great deal of Whay. whey-pot n. ΚΠ 14.. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 624/4 Whey i. olla whey potte. whey-tub n. ΚΠ 1813 T. Rudge Gen. View Agric. Glouc. 299 Butter-milk..is sometimes saved in the whey-tub. b. whey-drinker n. ΚΠ 1716 E. Baynard Health 19 Such Tormenters never Rages, 'Mong Whey-drinkers in poor Cottages. c. Adjectives. whey-colour adj. (also whey-coloured) ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > skin > complexion > paleness > [adjective] blatec1000 whiteOE greena1275 blakec1275 bleykea1300 wana1300 palec1330 bleach1340 pale and wan (wan and pale)c1374 colourlessc1380 deadlyc1385 deadc1386 bloodlessc1450 earthlyc1460 ruddylessc1460 wan visaged?a1513 wanny1555 as pale or white as a clout1557 bleak1566 mealy1566 pale-faced1570 ghastly1574 white-faced1577 bleakish1581 pallid1590 whiggish1590 tallow-faced1592 maid-pale1597 lily1600 whey-colour1602 lew1611 roseless1611 Hippocratical1615 cadaverousa1661 Hippocratic1681 smock-faced1684 white-looked1690 livid1728 as white (or pale) as a sheet1752 squalid1753 deathly1791 etiolated1791 light-skinned1802 suety1803 shilpit1813 blanched1828 tallowy1830 suet-faced1834 pasty1836 tallowish1838 whey-faced1847 pasty-faced1848 aghast1850 waxen1853 complexionless1863 light-skin1877 lily-cheeked1877 lardy1879 wan-faced1881 exsanguinous1889 wheatish1950 the world > life > the body > hair > hair on lower part of face > [adjective] > beard > types of tatty1513 writhledc1600 whey-colour1602 Cain-coloureda1616 whey1663 shag-rag1868 Jesus1938 1602 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor i. iv. 20 I take it hee is somewhat a weakly man: And he has as it were a whay coloured beard. 1726 Learned Diss. Dumpling 16 A goodly Whey-colour'd Beard. 1836 A. Combe Physiol. Digestion i. v A semi-transparent whey-coloured fluid. whey-hued adj. ΚΠ a1915 J. Joyce Giacomo Joyce (1968) 2 Smitten by the hot creamy light, grey wheyhued shadows under the jawbones. whey-like adj. ΚΠ 1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) IV. 174 A whey-like juice. 1822 J. M. Good Study Med. II. 189 Whey-like urine. whey-sour adj. ΚΠ 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses i. ii. [Nestor] 28 With her weak blood and wheysour milk she had fed him. d. In reference to the pale colour of whey. (a) whey beard n. whey countenance n. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > skin > complexion > paleness > [noun] > of face wana1300 ashc1374 tallow-face1597 whey countenance1604 lily1713 suet face1896 1604 T. Middleton Blacke Bk. E 1 b A whay countenance, short stooppes, and earthen dampish-voyce. whey face n. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > skin > complexion > paleness > [noun] > person tallow-face1597 smock-face1605 whey facea1616 light-skin1935 a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) v. iii. 19 Macb...What Soldiers, Patch?.. What Soldiers Whay-face? Ser. The English Force, so please you. View more context for this quotation 1753 J. Collier Ess. Art of Tormenting i. ii. 46 If her complexion is fair, call her Whey-face. 1824 M. R. Mitford Our Village I. 239 A little..man, with a Jerry-Sneak expression in his pale whey-face. (b) Adjectives. whey-bearded adj. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > hair > hair on lower part of face > [adjective] > beard > types of > having long-beardedc1400 red-bearded1552 white-bearded1555 whey-bearded1556 grey-bearded1562 black-bearded1577 barbatulousc1600 bush-bearded1615 big-bearded1620 sand-beardeda1641 goateed1847 brown-bearded1882 peach fuzz1932 peach-fuzzed1956 1556 N. Grimald tr. Cicero Thre Bks. Duties i. f. 46^v As soone as he waxed wheyberded. whey-pale adj. ΚΠ 1916 J. Joyce Portrait of Artist v. 226 He saw in a moment the student's whey pale face. 1978 H. Wouk War & Remembrance xiii. 129 Ascher's whey-pale face wanly lit up at the comparison. C2. whey-bacon n. bacon from a whey-pig. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > pork > [noun] > bacon > types of chimney-bacon1566 rust1641 whey-bacona1722 Wiltshire1794 slab bacon1932 a1722 E. Lisle Observ. Husbandry (1757) 431 The latter end of November or December, when all the whey-bacon is gone. whey-beard n. (a) a person having a ‘whey beard’; (b) the whitethroat, Sylvia cinerea. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > hair > hair on lower part of face > [noun] > beard > types of > person having greybeard1207 whitebeard1450 redbeard1607 whey-beard1614 longbeard1665 the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > family Muscicapidae (thrushes, etc.) > subfamily Sylviidae (warbler) > [noun] > genus Sylvia > sylvia communis (whitethroat) whey-beard1614 glut1661 muff1661 whitethroat1673 nettle-monger1712 whitethroat warbler1817 whey-bird1825 muggy1829 nettle-tom1830 muffit1837 mufty1837 nettle creeper1845 feather-bed1854 jackstraw1879 feather-bird1885 mealy-mouth1885 miller1885 muffya1886 1614 R. Tailor Hogge hath lost Pearle iv. F 3 b Father whay-beard. 1647 W. Lilly Christian Astrol. xv. 84 He is leane, crooked, or beetle-browed, a thin whay Beard. 1831 J. Rennie Montagu's Ornithol. Dict. (ed. 2) 533 Whey beard, a name for the White Throat. whey-bird n. the woodlark, Alauda arborea; also = whey-beard n. (b). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > non-arboreal (larks, etc.) > [noun] > family Alaudidae > genus Alauda > alauda arborea (woodlark) woodlarkc1325 whey-bird1825 the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > family Muscicapidae (thrushes, etc.) > subfamily Sylviidae (warbler) > [noun] > genus Sylvia > sylvia communis (whitethroat) whey-beard1614 glut1661 muff1661 whitethroat1673 nettle-monger1712 whitethroat warbler1817 whey-bird1825 muggy1829 nettle-tom1830 muffit1837 mufty1837 nettle creeper1845 feather-bed1854 jackstraw1879 feather-bird1885 mealy-mouth1885 miller1885 muffya1886 1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. Whey-bird, the wood-lark,..Lanarks. 1862 C. A. Johns Brit. Birds 625 Whey-bird, the Whitethroat. † whey-blooded adj. Obsolete cowardly. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > fear > cowardice or pusillanimity > [adjective] arghc885 heartlessOE bloodlessc1225 coward1297 faintc1300 nesha1382 comfortless1387 pusillanimousa1425 faint-heartedc1440 unheartyc1440 cowardous1480 hen-hearteda1529 cowardish1530 feigningc1540 white-livered1546 cowardly1551 faceless1567 pusillanime1570 liver-hearted1571 cowish1579 cowardise1582 coward-like1587 faint-heart1590 courageless1593 sheep-like1596 white-hearted1598 milky1602 milk-livered1608 undaring1611 lily-livereda1616 yarrow1616 flightful1626 chicken-hearted1629 poltroon1649 cow-hearted1660 whey-blooded1675 unbravea1681 nimble-heeled1719 dunghill1775 shrimp-hearted1796 chicken-livered1804 white-feathered1816 pluckless1821 chicken-spirited1822 milk-blooded1822 cowardy1836 yellow1856 yellow-livered1857 putty-hearted1872 uncourageous1878 chicken1883 piker1901 yellow-bellied1907 manso1932 scaredy-cat1933 chickenshit1940 cold-footed1944 1675 T. Duffett Mock-tempest i. i. 2 The Whey-Blooded Rogue looks as if his heart were melted into his Breeches. † whey-brained adj. Obsolete weak-brained. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupidity, dullness of intellect > [adjective] sloweOE stuntc960 dullOE hardOE stuntlyc1000 sotc1050 dillc1175 dulta1225 simplea1325 heavy1340 astonedc1374 sheepishc1380 dull-witteda1387 lourd1390 steerishc1411 ass-likea1425 brainless?a1439 deafc1440 sluggishc1450 short-witted1477 obtuse1509 peakish1519 wearish1519 deaf, or dumb as a beetle1520 doileda1522 gross1526 headlessa1530 stulty1532 ass-headed1533 pot-headed1533 stupid?1541 sheep's head1542 doltish1543 dumpish1545 assish1548 blockish1548 slow-witted1548 blockheaded1549 surd1551 dull-headed1552 hammer-headed1552 skit-brained?1553 buzzardly1561 witless1562 log-headeda1566 assy1566 sottish1566 dastardly1567 stupidious1567 beetle-headed1570 calvish1570 bluntish1578 cod's-headed1578 grout-headed1578 bedaft1579 dull-pated1580 blate1581 buzzard-like1581 long-eared1582 dullard1583 woodena1586 duncical1588 leaden-headed1589 buzzard1592 dorbellical1592 dunstical1592 heavy-headeda1593 shallow-brained1592 blunt-witted1594 mossy1597 Bœotian1598 clay-brained1598 fat1598 fat-witted1598 knotty-pated1598 stupidous1598 wit-lost1599 barren1600 duncifiedc1600 lourdish1600 stockish1600 thick1600 booby1603 leaden-pated1603 partless1603 thin-headed1603 leaden-skulledc1604 blockhead1606 frost-brained1606 ram-headed1608 beef-witted1609 insulse1609 leaden-spirited1609 asininec1610 clumse1611 blockheadly1612 wattle-headed1613 flata1616 logger-headeda1616 puppy-headeda1616 shallow-patedc1616 thick-brained1619 half-headed1621 buzzard-blinda1625 beef-brained1628 toom-headed1629 thick-witted1634 woollen-witted1635 squirrel-headed1637 clod-pated1639 lean-souled1639 muddy-headed1642 leaden-witteda1645 as sad as any mallet1645 under-headed1646 fat-headed1647 half-witted1647 insipid1651 insulsate1652 soft-headed1653 thick-skulleda1657 muddish1658 non-intelligent1659 whey-brained1660 sap-headed1665 timber-headed1666 leather-headeda1668 out of (one's) tree1669 boobily1673 thoughtless1673 lourdly1674 logger1675 unintelligenta1676 Bœotic1678 chicken-brained1678 under-witted1683 loggerhead1684 dunderheaded1692 unintelligible1694 buffle-headed1697 crassicc1700 numbskulled1707 crassous1708 doddy-polled1708 haggis-headed1715 niddy-noddy1722 muzzy1723 pudding-headed1726 sumphish1728 pitcher-souleda1739 duncey1743 hebete1743 chuckheaded1756 dumb1756 duncely1757 imbecile1766 mutton-headed1768 chuckle-headed1770 jobbernowl1770 dowfarta1774 boobyish1778 wittol1780 staumrel1787 opaquec1789 stoopid1791 mud-headed1793 borné1795 muzzy-headed1798 nog-headed1800 thick-headed1801 gypit1804 duncish1805 lightweight1809 numbskull1814 tup-headed1816 chuckle-pate1820 unintellectuala1821 dense1822 ninnyish1822 dunch1825 fozy1825 potato-headed1826 beef-headed1828 donkeyish1831 blockheadish1833 pinheaded1837 squirrel-minded1837 pumpkin-headed1838 tomfoolish1838 dundering1840 chicken-headed1842 like a bump on a log1842 ninny-minded1849 numbheadeda1852 nincompoopish1852 suet-brained1852 dolly1853 mullet-headed1853 sodden1853 fiddle-headed1854 numb1854 bovine1855 logy1859 crass1861 unsmart1861 off his chump1864 wooden-headed1865 stupe1866 lean-minded1867 duffing1869 cretinous1871 doddering1871 thick-head1873 doddling1874 stupido1879 boneheaded1883 woolly-headed1883 leaden-natured1889 suet-headed1890 sam-sodden1891 dopey1896 turnip-headed1898 bonehead1903 wool-witted1905 peanut-headed1906 peanut-brained1907 dilly1909 torpid-minded1909 retardate1912 nitwitted1917 meat-headed1918 mug1922 cloth-headed1925 loopy1925 nitwit1928 lame-brained1929 dead from the neck up1930 simpy1932 nail-headed1936 square-headed1936 dingbats1937 pinhead1939 dim-witted1940 pea-brained1942 clueless1943 lobotomized1943 retarded1949 pointy-headed1950 clottish1952 like a stunned mullet1953 silly (or crazy) as a two-bob watch1954 out to lunch1955 pin-brained1958 dozy1959 eejity1964 out of one's tiny mind1965 doofus1967 twitty1967 twittish1969 twatty1975 twattish1976 blur1977 dof1979 goofus1981 dickheaded1991 dickish1991 numpty1992 cockish1996 1660 J. Tatham Rump i. i A Whey-brain'd fellow. whey-brose n. brose made with whey instead of water. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > soup or pottage > [noun] > other soups breec1000 mortressc1387 cretone?a1400 mortrelc1400 primrosea1450 water-kale?a1500 white broth?1537 plum broth1614 mutton broth1615 veal brotha1625 nettle-kale?c1625 China-broth1628 bisque1647 beer-broth1648 dilligrout1662 nativity broth1674 sowdyc1700 mandarin broth1701 white soup1708 soup-vermicell1724 soup-meagre1733 burgoo1743 sago-gruel1743 soup maigre1754 vermicelli soup1769 vermicelli1771 noodle soup1779 mock turtle soup1783 pepper-water1783 mulligatawny1784 powsowdie1787 macaroni soup1789 bird's nest soup1806 smiggins1825 garbure1829 pish-pash1834 laksa1846 sancocho1851 ajiaco1856 pepper soup1860 liquorice-soup1864 mock turtle1876 borsch1884 petite marmite1890 whey-brose1894 rassolnik1899 lokshen soup1900 menudo1904 hoosh1905 sinigang1912 waterzooi1915 Cullen Skink1916 swallow's nest soup1920 mizutaki1933 rasam1933 pasta fazool1935 pho1935 pasta fagioli1951 stracciatella1954 solyanka1958 tom yam1960 mannish water1968 pasta e fagioli1968 ribollita1968 tom yam kung1969 the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > soup or pottage > porridges > [noun] > brose frumenty?c1390 frumenta1513 drammock1563 brose1657 crowdie1668 pease brose1811 browis1831 whey-brose1894 siot1936 1894 W. D. Latto Tammas Bodkin: Swatches o' Hodden-Grey viii The whey-brose was perfection. whey-butter n. butter made from whey or from whey-cream. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dairy produce > butter > [noun] > types of butter May-butter?a1425 clarified butter1562 pot-butter1616 manteca1622 grass butter1648 green butter1654 drawn butter1661 cacao butter1662 ghee1665 rowen1673 ruskin1679 orange butter1696 whey-buttera1722 rowen butter1725 fairy butter1747 grease1788 Cambridge butter1830 stubble-butter1856 black jack1858 maître d'hôtel butter1861 Normandy butter1868 creamery butter1881 pound butter1888 renovated butter1888 samn1888 process butter1898 pool butter1940 garlic butter1942 yak butter1962 Normandy1973 cannabutter1994 a1722 E. Lisle Observ. Husbandry (1757) 406 They skimmed the cream off to make whey-butter. 1846 H. White in J. Baxter Libr. Pract. Agric. (ed. 4) I. 211 The quantity of whey-butter per cow is about half a pound per week. whey-cream n. the cream which remains in the whey after the curd has been removed. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dairy produce > [noun] > cream > other types of cream whig1528 tuftaffety cream1661 whey-cream1742 coffee cream1868 crème fraîche1936 1742 W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman June xiv. 170 When Butter is wholly made with Whey-cream, it is then justly named Whey-butter. whey-drop n. a hole in an imperfectly pressed cheese in which the whey collects. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dairy produce > cheese > [noun] > defects in cheese eyea1387 lazar1573 whey-spring1784 whey-drop1811 whey-eye1811 rusty spot1899 red spot1903 1811 W. Aiton Gen. View Agric. Ayr 452 (Jam.) Putrifying holes, which, in the dairy language of Ayrshire, are termed whey-drops. whey-eye n. a hole in an imperfectly pressed cheese in which the whey collects. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dairy produce > cheese > [noun] > defects in cheese eyea1387 lazar1573 whey-spring1784 whey-drop1811 whey-eye1811 rusty spot1899 red spot1903 1811 W. Aiton Gen. View Agric. Ayr 455 (Jam.) Whey-springs, or eyes, are seldom met with in the cheeses of Ayrshire. whey-face n. a person having a pale face. ΚΠ 1649 W. Davenant Love & Honour iv. iv. 20 Marke, sir, that whey-fac'd fellow in the red. 1697 M. Prior Epist. to F. Shephard 49 That sneaking Whey-fac'd God Apollo. 1753 S. Foote Englishman in Paris i. 15 One whey-fac'd Son of a Bitch..call'd me Bête. whey-faced adj. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > skin > complexion > paleness > [adjective] blatec1000 whiteOE greena1275 blakec1275 bleykea1300 wana1300 palec1330 bleach1340 pale and wan (wan and pale)c1374 colourlessc1380 deadlyc1385 deadc1386 bloodlessc1450 earthlyc1460 ruddylessc1460 wan visaged?a1513 wanny1555 as pale or white as a clout1557 bleak1566 mealy1566 pale-faced1570 ghastly1574 white-faced1577 bleakish1581 pallid1590 whiggish1590 tallow-faced1592 maid-pale1597 lily1600 whey-colour1602 lew1611 roseless1611 Hippocratical1615 cadaverousa1661 Hippocratic1681 smock-faced1684 white-looked1690 livid1728 as white (or pale) as a sheet1752 squalid1753 deathly1791 etiolated1791 light-skinned1802 suety1803 shilpit1813 blanched1828 tallowy1830 suet-faced1834 pasty1836 tallowish1838 whey-faced1847 pasty-faced1848 aghast1850 waxen1853 complexionless1863 light-skin1877 lily-cheeked1877 lardy1879 wan-faced1881 exsanguinous1889 wheatish1950 1847 C. Brontë Jane Eyre II. ii. 52 Your tutor, whey-faced Mr. Vining. wheygoose n. used as a term of opprobrium.Apparently an isolated use. ΚΠ 1949 C. Fry Lady's not for Burning i. 8 What shall I do With this nattering wheygoose, Alizon? Shall I knock him down? whey-lead n. see lead n.¹ 5. ΚΠ 1876 R. Jefferies in Fraser's Mag. Nov. 657/1 Against one wall are the whey-leads. whey-pig n. a pig fed with whey. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > order Artiodactyla (cloven-hoofed animals) > pig > [noun] > defined by eating habits whey-pig1585 rooter1607 shock pig1759 1585 J. Higgins tr. Junius Nomenclator 51/1 Porcus serarius,..a whey pig. Thesaurus » Categories » whey-porridge n. porridge made with whey instead of water. whey-spring n. = whey-drop n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dairy produce > cheese > [noun] > defects in cheese eyea1387 lazar1573 whey-spring1784 whey-drop1811 whey-eye1811 rusty spot1899 red spot1903 1784 J. Twamley Dairying Exemplified 13 Faults..in Cheese such as..Whey Springs. 1811 [see whey-drop n.]. whey-whig n. a beverage made of whey flavoured with herbs. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > milk drinks > [noun] rice milk1620 whig1684 leban1695 saloop1728 sack-whey1736 celery whey1761 mustard whey1769 wine whey1769 Scotch chocolate1785 whey-whig1811 chocolate milk1819 horchata1859 tamarind-whey1883 milk shake1886 Horlick1891 lassi1894 Ovaltine1906 shake1909 malt1942 malted1945 1811 R. Willan in Archaeologia 17 163 Whey-Whig, whey impregnated with mint, balm, and walnut leaves. whey-worm n. see quot. 1828; figurative a whim. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > inconstancy > [noun] > capriciousness > a caprice or whim fantasya1450 wantonness1531 humour1533 worm?a1534 will1542 toy?1545 whey-worm1548 wild worm1548 freak1563 crotchet1573 fancy1579 whim-wham1580 whirligig1589 caper1592 megrim1593 spleen1594 kicksey-winsey1599 fegary1600 humorousness1604 curiosity1605 conundrum1607 whimsy1607 windmill1612 buzza1616 capriccioa1616 quirka1616 flama1625 maggota1625 fantasticality1631 capruch1634 gimcrack1639 whimseycado1654 caprich1656 excursion1662 frisk1665 caprice1673 fita1680 grub1681 fantasque1697 whim1697 frolic1711 flight1717 whigmaleery1730 vagary1753 maddock1787 kink1803 fizgig1824 fad1834 whimmery1837 fantod1839 brain crack1853 whimsy-whamsy1871 tic1896 tick1900 the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > suppuration > [noun] > a suppuration > abscess > boil > pustule bladderc1000 whelkc1000 pustulea1398 pusha1400 pustulation?a1425 whealc1440 pust1527 burble1555 quat1597 pouk1601 bube1608 bub1612 crystal1661 blotch1669 epinyctis1676 phlyzacium1693 varus1756 stone-pock1818 whey-worm1828 1548 Hall's Vnion: Edward IV f. ccxxij The Essex men hauynge wylde whaye wormes in their heddes. 1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Whey-worms, pimples, from which exudes a wheylike moisture. whey-wormed adj. marked with whey-worms. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > suppuration > [adjective] > abscess > boil > pustule pustulate?a1425 pustuled?a1425 whey-wormeda1529 pustulous1543 pustulent1607 pustulated1666 pustular1716 whelky1822 psydracious1829 phlyzacious1830 papulopustular1843 pustuliform1846 pustulant1895 a1529 J. Skelton Tunnyng of Elynour Rummyng in Certayne Bks. (?1545) 553 A sory face Wheywormed about. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1923; most recently modified version published online June 2022). † wheyv. Etymology: < whey n. Obsolete. transitive. To separate the whey from (milk); hence in vbl. n. attributive, as wheying cloth; also, to make (the blood) wheyish or thin. Also intransitive (U.S.) with off. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorders of blood > have or cause blood disorder [verb (transitive)] > make blood thin whey1660 the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of dairy produce > [noun] > formation of cheese > separating whey > instrument for cheese ladder1598 wheying cloth1660 skimming-dish1688 the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of dairy produce > [verb (transitive)] > prepare milk for cheese > separate whey whey1728 1660 in Sir R. Sadler's St. Papers (1809) III. 358 Two fleeting dishes, six turning cloathes, and five wheying cloathes. 1661 O. Felltham Resolves (rev. ed.) 201 It is most true that in matters unjust, Christian Religion wheyes the bloud and makes a Coward of man. 1716 M. Davies Crit. Hist. 73 in Athenæ Britannicæ III The Idolatry of Covetousness..had so whey'd or coagulated all it's Mass of Blood. 1728 E. Smith Compl. Housewife (ed. 2) 85 Take the Curd of a gallon of Milk, and whey it well. 1728 E. Smith Compl. Housewife (ed. 2) 105 Take a gallon of new Milk, set it as for a Cheese, and gently whey it. 1877 4th Rep. Vermont Board Agric. 37 When allowed to ‘whey-off’, as the separation is practically termed, the difference in structure and fluidity will readily appear in the amount of whey produced. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1923; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.c725v.1660
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