Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The sour liquid that remains after the butterfat has been removed from whole milk or cream by churning.
  • noun A cultured sour milk made by adding certain microorganisms to sweet milk.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The liquid that remains after the butter is separated from milk. It has a pleasant acidulous taste. Also called churn-milk.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The milk that remains after the butter is separated from the cream.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The liquid left over after producing butter from full cream milk by the churning process, also called traditional buttermilk.
  • noun Cultured buttermilk, a fermented dairy product produced from cow's milk, with a characteristically sour taste.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun residue from making butter from sour raw milk; or pasteurized milk curdled by adding a culture

Etymologies

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butter +‎ milk

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  • Dale Evans. See A Horse is a Horse

    February 1, 2008

  • '''drinkin' buttermilk all the week,

    whiskey on a Sunday ' ' '

    February 1, 2008