buttermilk
Syllables: but·ter·milk/ˈbʌtəˌmɪlk/US/ˈbʌtɚˌmɪlk/
buttermilk noun: the liquid left over after producing butter from full cream milk by the churning process, also called traditional buttermilk.
Noun
buttermilk (countable and uncountable, plural buttermilks)
- The liquid left over after producing butter from full cream milk by the churning process, also called traditional buttermilk.
- An anti-aphrodisiac, suggested in Hindu erotological literature as a way for women to negate amatory challenges, is to bathe in the buttermilk of a she-buffalo.1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 52
- Cultured buttermilk, a fermented dairy product produced from cow's milk, with a characteristically sour taste.
- A light yellow color, like that of buttermilk.
buttermilk meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
buttermilk in Hindi
- traditional buttermilk
- छाछ chāch, मट्ठा maṭṭhā
- cultured buttermilk
- छाछ chāch
buttermilk in Tamil
- traditional buttermilk
- மோர் mōr
- cultured buttermilk
- மோர் mōr
buttermilk in Marathi
- traditional buttermilk
- ताक tāk
buttermilk in Urdu
- traditional buttermilk
- چھاچھ chāch
More languagesFewer languages
- buttermilk in Telugu
- చల్ల calla, మజ్జిగ majjiga
- buttermilk in Malayalam
- മോര് mōrŭ
- buttermilk in Kannada
- ಮಜ್ಜಿಗೆ majjige
- buttermilk in Punjabi
- ਛਾਹ chāh, ਲੱਸੀ lassī
- buttermilk in Gujarati
- છાશ chāś
- buttermilk in Sanskrit
- तक्रम् takram
- buttermilk in Pashto
- شوملې šumle
- buttermilk in Arabic
- مَخِيض maḵīḍ, مَمْخُوض mamḵūḍ, دُوغ dūḡ
- buttermilk in Persian
- دوغ duġ, پینو pinu
- buttermilk in Vietnamese
- kho thực phẩm
Examples of buttermilk in a sentence
- It’s more about method, she says, but using stone-ground cornmeal and whole buttermilk are just as important.
- Discovery of this document was a fly in the buttermilk of Tattenai.
- What do people do when they make buttermilk for the public that gives buttermilk that twang taste?
Forms of buttermilk
| plural | buttermilks |
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Origin of buttermilk
Inherited from Middle English butter-melke, equivalent to butter + milk. Cognate with Dutch botermelk (“buttermilk”), German Buttermilch (“buttermilk”), Low German Bottermelk (“buttermilk”), Luxembourgish Bottermëllech (“buttermilk”), Plautdietsch Bottamalkj, Bottamaltj, Bottermalkj, Bottermaltj (“buttermilk”), and Yiddish פּוטערמילך (putermilkh), פּוטער־מילעך (puter-milekh, “buttermilk”).
Words formed from buttermilk
- Bulgarian buttermilk
- buttermilked
- buttermilky
- Devil's buttermilk
- fly in the buttermilk
Phrases with buttermilk
Questions about buttermilk
- What does buttermilk mean?
- Buttermilk means the liquid left over after producing butter from full cream milk by the churning process, also called traditional buttermilk.
- What is buttermilk in Hindi?
- Buttermilk in Hindi is छाछ (chāch), मट्ठा (maṭṭhā). See Buttermilk meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is buttermilk?
- Buttermilk is a noun.
- How do you pronounce buttermilk?
- Buttermilk is pronounced /ˈbʌtɚˌmɪlk/ (US).
- What is the plural of buttermilk?
- The plural of buttermilk is buttermilks.
Words near buttermilk in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: buttermilk (page history and authors); മോര് (Malayalam) (page history and authors); شوملې (Pashto) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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