Search for: milk
2801 Etymology dictionary, p. brose (n.).2
… boiling milk, liquid in which meat has been broiled, seasoning, etc., poured over oatmeal or barley meal, 1650s, Scottish, earlier browes, from Old French broez …
2802 Etymology dictionary, p. butter (n.).2
… of milk," obtained from cream by churning, general West Germanic (compare Old Frisian, Old High German butera, German Butter, Dutch boter ), an early loan-word from …
2803 Etymology dictionary, p. butterfly (n.).2
… or milk that is left uncovered. Or, less creatively, simply because the pale yellow color of many species' wings suggests the color of butter. Another theory …
2804 Etymology dictionary, p. buttermilk (n.).2
liquid that remains after the butter has been churned out of milk, c. 1500, from butter (n.) + milk (n.). Compare German Buttermilch, Dutch botermelk. Middle French had laict beurré and babeurre.
2805 Etymology dictionary, p. buttermilk (n.).3
… milk" by 1590s. Said to be either from a practice of letting the milk sour before churning to make the cream separate, or from the post-churning milk being …
2806 Etymology dictionary, p. cafe au lait (n.).2
1763, French café au lait, literally "coffee with milk," from lait "milk" (12c.), from Latin lactis, genitive of lac "milk" (see lacto- ). As opposed to café noir "black coffee."
2807 Etymology dictionary, p. cappuccino (n.).2
"espresso coffee with steamed milk foam," 1948, from Italian cappuccino, from Capuchin in reference to the beverage's color, which supposedly resembles to that of the brown hoods of the Friars Minor Capuchins (see Capuchin ).
2808 Etymology dictionary, p. casein (n.).2
principal protein-constituent of milk, forming the basis of cheese, 1841, from French caséine, from Latin caseus "cheese" (see cheese (n.1)) + chemical suffix -ine (2).
2809 Etymology dictionary, p. centrifuge (n.).2
1887, "a centrifuge machine," originally a machine for separating cream from milk, from French centrifuge, from noun use of adjective meaning "centrifugal" (1801), from Modern Latin centrifugus (see centrifugal ). Centrifuge machine is from 1765.
2810 Etymology dictionary, p. Charlotte.2
… , eggs, milk, etc.," said to be probably from Old French char laité "meat with milk."
2811 Etymology dictionary, p. cheese (n.1).2
… of milk coagulated, separated from the whey, pressed, and used as food," Old English cyse (West Saxon), cese (Anglian) "cheese," from West Germanic *kasjus (source also …
2812 Etymology dictionary, p. cheese (n.1).5
… of milk used as food; pressed or molded cheeses with rinds are from 14c. Transferred to other cheese-like substances by 1530s. As a photographer's word to make …
2813 Etymology dictionary, p. chocolate (n.).2
… in milk or water, it was very popular 17c.
2814 Etymology dictionary, p. chocolate (n.).3
… ." Chocolate milk is by 1845. Chocolate-chip is from 1940.
2815 Etymology dictionary, p. chowder (n.).4
The modern form of it usually features clams. In New England, usually made with milk; the Manhattan version is made with tomatoes. The derogatory chowderhead (1819) is a corruption of cholter-head (16c.), from jolt-head, which is of unknown origin.
2816 Etymology dictionary, p. churn (n.).2
… or milk is agitated to separate it and make butter," Old English cyrin, from Proto-Germanic *kernjon (source also of Old Norse kirna, Swedish kärna, Danish kjerne …
2817 Etymology dictionary, p. churn (v.).2
… agitate (milk or cream) to make butter," from churn (n.). Extended sense "shake or agitate violently" is from late 17c. Intransitive sense is from 1735. Related: Churned …
2818 Etymology dictionary, p. clabber (n.).2
"mud," 1824, from Irish and Gaelic clabar "mud." Also often short for bonnyclabber. As a verb, "become thick" (of milk, etc.), by 1880.
2819 Etymology dictionary, p. colostrum (n.).2
"the first milk secreted in the breasts after childbirth," 1570s, from Latin colostrum "first milk from an animal," earlier colustra, a word of unknown etymology.
2820 Etymology dictionary, p. condensed (adj.).2
c. 1600, "made more dense, compressed, compacted," past-participle adjective from condense. Of literary works, from 1823. Condensed milk is attested by 1863. Condensed type (1854) is thinner than compressed .