单词 | churn-milk |
释义 | churn-milkn. Now chiefly dialect. a. Butter-milk, the acidulous milk which remains after the butter has been separated. 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 1598 R. Hakluyt tr. W. de Rubruquis in Princ. Navigations (new ed.) I. 97 The churn-milke which remaineth of the butter. 1599 A. M. tr. O. Gaebelkhover Bk. Physicke 267/2 We may give it charne or Buttermilcke. 1628 J. Earle Micro-cosmogr. xviii. sig. D8 His face beares still a relish of Churne-milke. 1867 E. Waugh Owd Blanket iii. 76 A mug-full o' churn-milk. 1879 Suppl. Voc. E. Anglia (E.D.S.) Churn-milk. b. attributive in figurative sense. ΚΠ 1590 R. Greene Neuer too Late ii. sig. H2v You..that stand vpon the beauty of your churnmilke face. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online September 2020). < n.1590 |
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