buttermilk

/ˈbʌtɚˌmɪlk/

buttermilk means the liquid left over after producing butter from full cream milk by the churning process, also called traditional buttermilk. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 73 out of 100.

buttermilk is pronounced /ˈbʌtɚˌmɪlk/.

Etymology

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”).

noun

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.”
Cultured buttermilk, a fermented dairy product produced from cow's milk, with a characteristically sour taste.
A light yellow color, like that of buttermilk.