buttermilkn.adj.

Brit.

/ˈbʌtəmɪlk/, U.S.

/ˈbədərˌmɪlk/

Forms: see butter n.¹ and milk n.¹ and adj.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: butter n.¹, milk n.¹

Etymology: < butter n.¹ + milk n.¹Compare Dutch regional botermelk and German Buttermilch (both 16th cent.).

A. n.

a. Originally: the milk which remains after butter has been churned out from cream, having a sourer taste than fresh milk and typically used as a drink or an ingredient in baking. In later use also: any of several substances commercially produced as a substitute for this, esp. one produced by the fermentation of pasteurized milk to which a bacterial culture has been added.Frequently with modifying word, as traditional buttermilk, cultured buttermilk.

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

a1500 in T. Wright & J. O. Halliwell Reliquiæ Antiquæ (1845) II. 198 (MED) She toke ayen the butter-melke and put het in the cheyrne.

1528 T. Paynell tr. Arnaldus de Villa Nova in Joannes de Mediolano Regimen Sanitatis Salerni sig. G b Butter mylke..Nothynge nourisheth more than this mylke whan hit is newe sopped vp with newe hotte breadde.

1584 T. Cogan Hauen of Health cxcvi. 158 Of the making of Butter is left a kinde of whey, which they commonly call Butter milke, or soure milke.

1625 Contin. Weekly Newes No. 2. 18 Many souldiers ran dayly away by reason of the great dearth, seeing that a quart of Butter-milke cost two stuyuers, and that other victuals are sold accordingly.

1704 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion III. xiii. 322 The poor Man had nothing for him to eat, but promised him good Butter-milk.

1728 J. Swift Short View State Ireland 12 The Families of Farmers who pay great Rents, living in Filth and Nastiness upon Butter-milk and Potatoes.

1840 Southern Lit. Messenger 6 386/2 Good eatings there, light-bread, fried bacon and eggs, waffles, batter-cakes—coffee and buttermilk.

1861 R. T. Hulme tr. C. H. Moquin-Tandon Elements Med. Zool. 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.

1912 Boston Sunday Post 28 Jan. (All Around Boston-Town section) He would go from his office and fly straight as a homing pigeon to the drug store, where he would again indulge his craving for buttermilk.

1933 B. E. Goodale Cottage Cheese & Cultured Buttermilk (S. Carolina Agric. Experiment Station Circular No. 49) 15 Market milk dealers and creamerymen have found cultured buttermilk to be a fine means of utilizing their surplus skimmilk.

1973 Countryman Winter 139 Dr Evans points out that drinking of 'free range' milk and, until recently, of much buttermilk, was characteristic of Welsh rural areas.

2005 J. Alford & N. Duguid Mangos & Curry Leaves 349/2 Traditional buttermilk is a common drink in the deserts of Pakistan, Rajasthan, and Gujarat.

2008 U. McGovern Lost Crafts (2009) 131 Carefully tip the buttermilk out of the jar, keeping it on one side if you wish to use it in another recipe.

b. figurative, esp. as the type of something weak, insipid, or sour.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > that which is unimportant > worthless

hawc1000

turdc1275

fille1297

dusta1300

lead1303

skitc1330

naught1340

vanityc1340

wrakea1350

rushc1350

dirt1357

fly's wing1377

goose-wing1377

fartc1390

chaff?a1400

nutshella1400

shalec1400

yardc1400

wrack1472

pelfrya1529

trasha1529

dreg1531

trish-trash1542

alchemy1547

beggary?1548

rubbish1548

pelfa1555

chip1556

stark naught1562

paltry?1566

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riff-raff1570

bran1574

baggage1579

nihil1579

trush-trash1582

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tartar1590

garbage1592

bag of winda1599

a cracked or slit groat1600

kitchen stuff1600

tilta1603

nothing?1608

bauble1609

countera1616

a pair of Yorkshire sleeves in a goldsmith's shop1620

buttermilk1630

dross1632

paltrement1641

cattle1643

bagatelle1647

nothingness1652

brimborion1653

stuff1670

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mud1706

caput mortuuma1711

snuff1778

twaddle1786

powder-post1790

traffic1828

junk1836

duffer1852

shice1859

punk1869

hogwash1870

cagmag1875

shit1890

tosh1892

tripe1895

dreck1905

schlock1906

cannon fodder1917

shite1928

skunk1929

crut1937

chickenshit1938

crud1943

Mickey Mouse1958

gick1959

garbo1978

turd1978

pants1994

1630 P. Massinger Picture sig. F^v Now they may drinke sacke, but small beere, with a pasport To begge with as they trauaile, and no money, Turnes their red blood to buttermilke.

1705 in H. Playford Wit & Mirth (new ed.) 59 So many Blades now rant in Silk..At first did spring from Butter-milk, Their Ancestors worth nothing.

1792 ‘P. Pindar’ Odes of Importance 27 Whose soul is butter-milk, and song is love.

1845 Amer. Rev. Dec. 601 Gin us yer feelers, Kentuck; we'll work the buttermilk outen yer!

a1934 ‘L. G. Gibbon’ Grey Granite: Curtain Raiser 206 in Scots Quair (1995) The Norsemen came, with faces made of sour buttermilk, childes from the stinking straths and byres.

2014 S. Enoch Rogue with Brogue xviii. 305 You are what I want, Arran. Anything more is just . . . buttermilk.

2. A pale yellow colour like that of buttermilk.

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the world > matter > colour > named colours > yellow or yellowness > [noun] > pale yellow

gullnessa1300

butter colour1629

wheat-colour1711

straw colour1737

jonquil1791

straw-yellow1794

straw1799

wax-yellow1805

sulphur-yellow1816

wax-colour1854

daffodil1855

sulphur-colour1866

sherry colour1871

tea rose1872

mastic1890

wheat1915

sulphur1924

straw-gold1963

buttermilk1977

1977 Associated Press Newswire (Nexis) 2 Apr. Colors run to biscuit, buttermilk, claret, caviar, coffee—but the silhouettes definitely aren't for the kitchen.

1985 Laura Ashley Home Furnishing Catal. 32 The rich crimson of the furnishing cotton goes well with..the pale jade and buttermilk of the sofa.

1995 Times (Nexis) 15 Apr. Twee magnolias and ever-so polite buttermilks—for years the predominant paint shades in the British interior—may finally have had their day.

2003 J. Davis Simple Crochet for Cherished Babies 66 200 yards..of Jaeger Baby Merino..yarn..in ‘Buttermilk’.

2011 B. D. Coleman Barry Dixon Inspirations 65/2 Cabinets were given washes in buttermilk and sage green.

B. adj.

Of a pale yellow colour like that of buttermilk; pale, pallid.

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the world > life > the body > skin > complexion > whiteness or fairness > [adjective]

whiteOE

fairc1175

whitelya1387

blonde1481

whitelewe1495

fair-faced1553

buttermilk1606

lilied1614

white-skin1634

light-complexioned1770

leucous1842

blondine1867

blonde-complexioned1881

leucodermic1926

blondish1961

1606 Wily Beguilde 45 But he has such a buttermilke face, that shoole neuer haue him.

1633 P. Massinger New Way to pay Old Debts ii. iii. sig. E4^v This most incredible lye would call vp one [blush] On thy buttermilke cheekes.

1865 E. W. Farnham Ideal Attained 7 A lingering tint of yellowish gray..had all vanished, and given place to a dingy buttermilk hue.

1884 Hub 1 June 159/1 It began raining, and the beautifully finished painting immediately gave way to an ugly buttermilk color.

1919 Improvem. Era Dec. 131 He's..small and light complexioned, with yellow fingers and lips..and bleary, buttermilk eyes.

1988 Observer 1 May 37/6 (caption) Nicole Farhi. Buttermilk silk jacket, £180.

2002 Irish Times 16 Nov. 20/1 With..gold candles lighting up buttermilk walls, the shop is a delight to the senses.

Compounds

C1. attributive in the names of dishes or foodstuffs made with buttermilk, as buttermilk bread, buttermilk pancake, etc.

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the world > food and drink > food > dairy produce > [adjective] > relating to milk > buttermilk

buttermilk1844

1844 A. L. Webster Improved Housewife 129 (heading) Buttermilk Biscuit.

1879 Demorest's Monthly Mag. Aug. 446/2 Buttermilk Pancakes.—One quarter of a pound of rice flour, one small tea-spoonful of bi-carbonate of soda, made into a light batter, with buttermilk.

1895 K. D. Wiggin Village Watch-tower 16 Mebbe her folks likes buttermilk bread best; some do.

1922 A. Jekyll Kitchen Ess. 134 Buttermilk scones or potato drops with blackberry jelly.

1989 R. Kenan Visitation of Spirits (1996) 62 Her buttermilk biscuits on a cold winter morning, I can smell them now, right light, with cane syrup and crisp bacon.

2005 GQ Sept. 172/2 The News Café serves bagels, buttermilk pancakes, and bacon and egg Florentine around the clock.

2012 E. Laybourne Monument 14 (2013) xv. 173 She was eating the plate of food I had left out for her. Barbecued chicken and corn salad with buttermilk dressing.

C2.

buttermilk land n. U.S. regional (Indiana and Ohio) swampy land characterized by pale loamy soil.

ΚΠ

1843 ‘R. Carlton’ New Purchase I. ix. 58 They had been sufficiently fortunate as to get a taste of ‘buttermilk land’—‘spouty land’.

1930 Soil Surv. Ohio & Switzerland Counties, Indiana (U.S. Dept. Agric.) 25 Like typical Clermont silt loam, this soil is locally known as slash land, crawfish land, or buttermilk land. In cultivated fields under moist conditions it has a dull dingy-gray color and on drying changes to very light gray.

1975 Soil Surv. Clermont County, Ohio (U.S. Dept. Agric.) 59/1 In places where this soil is almost white when dry, it is called ‘buttermilk’ land. In other places it is called ‘crawdad’ land.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	buttermilk
释义	buttermilkn.adj. Brit. /ˈbʌtəmɪlk/, U.S. /ˈbədərˌmɪlk/ Forms: see butter n.¹ and milk n.¹ and adj. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: butter n.¹, milk n.¹ Etymology: < butter n.¹ + milk n.¹Compare Dutch regional botermelk and German Buttermilch (both 16th cent.). A. n. 1. a. Originally: the milk which remains after butter has been churned out from cream, having a sourer taste than fresh milk and typically used as a drink or an ingredient in baking. In later use also: any of several substances commercially produced as a substitute for this, esp. one produced by the fermentation of pasteurized milk to which a bacterial culture has been added.Frequently with modifying word, as traditional buttermilk, cultured buttermilk. 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 a1500 in T. Wright & J. O. Halliwell Reliquiæ Antiquæ (1845) II. 198 (MED) She toke ayen the butter-melke and put het in the cheyrne. 1528 T. Paynell tr. Arnaldus de Villa Nova in Joannes de Mediolano Regimen Sanitatis Salerni sig. G b Butter mylke..Nothynge nourisheth more than this mylke whan hit is newe sopped vp with newe hotte breadde. 1584 T. Cogan Hauen of Health cxcvi. 158 Of the making of Butter is left a kinde of whey, which they commonly call Butter milke, or soure milke. 1625 Contin. Weekly Newes No. 2. 18 Many souldiers ran dayly away by reason of the great dearth, seeing that a quart of Butter-milke cost two stuyuers, and that other victuals are sold accordingly. 1704 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion III. xiii. 322 The poor Man had nothing for him to eat, but promised him good Butter-milk. 1728 J. Swift Short View State Ireland 12 The Families of Farmers who pay great Rents, living in Filth and Nastiness upon Butter-milk and Potatoes. 1840 Southern Lit. Messenger 6 386/2 Good eatings there, light-bread, fried bacon and eggs, waffles, batter-cakes—coffee and buttermilk. 1861 R. T. Hulme tr. C. H. Moquin-Tandon Elements Med. Zool. 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. 1912 Boston Sunday Post 28 Jan. (All Around Boston-Town section) He would go from his office and fly straight as a homing pigeon to the drug store, where he would again indulge his craving for buttermilk. 1933 B. E. Goodale Cottage Cheese & Cultured Buttermilk (S. Carolina Agric. Experiment Station Circular No. 49) 15 Market milk dealers and creamerymen have found cultured buttermilk to be a fine means of utilizing their surplus skimmilk. 1973 Countryman Winter 139 Dr Evans points out that drinking of 'free range' milk and, until recently, of much buttermilk, was characteristic of Welsh rural areas. 2005 J. Alford & N. Duguid Mangos & Curry Leaves 349/2 Traditional buttermilk is a common drink in the deserts of Pakistan, Rajasthan, and Gujarat. 2008 U. McGovern Lost Crafts (2009) 131 Carefully tip the buttermilk out of the jar, keeping it on one side if you wish to use it in another recipe. b. figurative, esp. as the type of something weak, insipid, or sour. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > that which is unimportant > worthless hawc1000 turdc1275 fille1297 dusta1300 lead1303 skitc1330 naught1340 vanityc1340 wrakea1350 rushc1350 dirt1357 fly's wing1377 goose-wing1377 fartc1390 chaff?a1400 nutshella1400 shalec1400 yardc1400 wrack1472 pelfrya1529 trasha1529 dreg1531 trish-trash1542 alchemy1547 beggary?1548 rubbish1548 pelfa1555 chip1556 stark naught1562 paltry?1566 rubbish1566 riff-raff1570 bran1574 baggage1579 nihil1579 trush-trash1582 stubblea1591 tartar1590 garbage1592 bag of winda1599 a cracked or slit groat1600 kitchen stuff1600 tilta1603 nothing?1608 bauble1609 countera1616 a pair of Yorkshire sleeves in a goldsmith's shop1620 buttermilk1630 dross1632 paltrement1641 cattle1643 bagatelle1647 nothingness1652 brimborion1653 stuff1670 flap-dragon1700 mud1706 caput mortuuma1711 snuff1778 twaddle1786 powder-post1790 traffic1828 junk1836 duffer1852 shice1859 punk1869 hogwash1870 cagmag1875 shit1890 tosh1892 tripe1895 dreck1905 schlock1906 cannon fodder1917 shite1928 skunk1929 crut1937 chickenshit1938 crud1943 Mickey Mouse1958 gick1959 garbo1978 turd1978 pants1994 1630 P. Massinger Picture sig. F^v Now they may drinke sacke, but small beere, with a pasport To begge with as they trauaile, and no money, Turnes their red blood to buttermilke. 1705 in H. Playford Wit & Mirth (new ed.) 59 So many Blades now rant in Silk..At first did spring from Butter-milk, Their Ancestors worth nothing. 1792 ‘P. Pindar’ Odes of Importance 27 Whose soul is butter-milk, and song is love. 1845 Amer. Rev. Dec. 601 Gin us yer feelers, Kentuck; we'll work the buttermilk outen yer! a1934 ‘L. G. Gibbon’ Grey Granite: Curtain Raiser 206 in Scots Quair (1995) The Norsemen came, with faces made of sour buttermilk, childes from the stinking straths and byres. 2014 S. Enoch Rogue with Brogue xviii. 305 You are what I want, Arran. Anything more is just . . . buttermilk. 2. A pale yellow colour like that of buttermilk. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > yellow or yellowness > [noun] > pale yellow gullnessa1300 butter colour1629 wheat-colour1711 straw colour1737 jonquil1791 straw-yellow1794 straw1799 wax-yellow1805 sulphur-yellow1816 wax-colour1854 daffodil1855 sulphur-colour1866 sherry colour1871 tea rose1872 mastic1890 wheat1915 sulphur1924 straw-gold1963 buttermilk1977 1977 Associated Press Newswire (Nexis) 2 Apr. Colors run to biscuit, buttermilk, claret, caviar, coffee—but the silhouettes definitely aren't for the kitchen. 1985 Laura Ashley Home Furnishing Catal. 32 The rich crimson of the furnishing cotton goes well with..the pale jade and buttermilk of the sofa. 1995 Times (Nexis) 15 Apr. Twee magnolias and ever-so polite buttermilks—for years the predominant paint shades in the British interior—may finally have had their day. 2003 J. Davis Simple Crochet for Cherished Babies 66 200 yards..of Jaeger Baby Merino..yarn..in ‘Buttermilk’. 2011 B. D. Coleman Barry Dixon Inspirations 65/2 Cabinets were given washes in buttermilk and sage green. B. adj. Of a pale yellow colour like that of buttermilk; pale, pallid. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > skin > complexion > whiteness or fairness > [adjective] whiteOE fairc1175 whitelya1387 blonde1481 whitelewe1495 fair-faced1553 buttermilk1606 lilied1614 white-skin1634 light-complexioned1770 leucous1842 blondine1867 blonde-complexioned1881 leucodermic1926 blondish1961 1606 Wily Beguilde 45 But he has such a buttermilke face, that shoole neuer haue him. 1633 P. Massinger New Way to pay Old Debts ii. iii. sig. E4^v This most incredible lye would call vp one [blush] On thy buttermilke cheekes. 1865 E. W. Farnham Ideal Attained 7 A lingering tint of yellowish gray..had all vanished, and given place to a dingy buttermilk hue. 1884 Hub 1 June 159/1 It began raining, and the beautifully finished painting immediately gave way to an ugly buttermilk color. 1919 Improvem. Era Dec. 131 He's..small and light complexioned, with yellow fingers and lips..and bleary, buttermilk eyes. 1988 Observer 1 May 37/6 (caption) Nicole Farhi. Buttermilk silk jacket, £180. 2002 Irish Times 16 Nov. 20/1 With..gold candles lighting up buttermilk walls, the shop is a delight to the senses. Compounds C1. attributive in the names of dishes or foodstuffs made with buttermilk, as buttermilk bread, buttermilk pancake, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dairy produce > [adjective] > relating to milk > buttermilk buttermilk1844 1844 A. L. Webster Improved Housewife 129 (heading) Buttermilk Biscuit. 1879 Demorest's Monthly Mag. Aug. 446/2 Buttermilk Pancakes.—One quarter of a pound of rice flour, one small tea-spoonful of bi-carbonate of soda, made into a light batter, with buttermilk. 1895 K. D. Wiggin Village Watch-tower 16 Mebbe her folks likes buttermilk bread best; some do. 1922 A. Jekyll Kitchen Ess. 134 Buttermilk scones or potato drops with blackberry jelly. 1989 R. Kenan Visitation of Spirits (1996) 62 Her buttermilk biscuits on a cold winter morning, I can smell them now, right light, with cane syrup and crisp bacon. 2005 GQ Sept. 172/2 The News Café serves bagels, buttermilk pancakes, and bacon and egg Florentine around the clock. 2012 E. Laybourne Monument 14 (2013) xv. 173 She was eating the plate of food I had left out for her. Barbecued chicken and corn salad with buttermilk dressing. C2. buttermilk land n. U.S. regional (Indiana and Ohio) swampy land characterized by pale loamy soil. ΚΠ 1843 ‘R. Carlton’ New Purchase I. ix. 58 They had been sufficiently fortunate as to get a taste of ‘buttermilk land’—‘spouty land’. 1930 Soil Surv. Ohio & Switzerland Counties, Indiana (U.S. Dept. Agric.) 25 Like typical Clermont silt loam, this soil is locally known as slash land, crawfish land, or buttermilk land. In cultivated fields under moist conditions it has a dull dingy-gray color and on drying changes to very light gray. 1975 Soil Surv. Clermont County, Ohio (U.S. Dept. Agric.) 59/1 In places where this soil is almost white when dry, it is called ‘buttermilk’ land. In other places it is called ‘crawdad’ land. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.adj.a1500
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