different between buttermilk vs whig

English

Etymology

From Middle English butter-melke, equivalent to butter +? milk. Compare German Low German Bottermelk (“buttermilk”), German Buttermilch (“buttermilk”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?b?t??m?lk/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?b?t??m?lk/
• Hyphenation: but?ter?milk

Noun

buttermilk (countable and uncountable, plural buttermilks)

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

Translations

See also

• curd
• milk
• whey
• yoghurt

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: hw?g, IPA^(key): /???/

Rhymes: -??

• Homophones: Whig, wig (in dialects with the wine-whine merger)

Etymology 1

Probably related to whey.

Noun

whig (plural whigs)

1. (Britain, dialect, obsolete) Acidulated whey, sometimes mixed with buttermilk and sweet herbs, used as a cooling beverage.
2. buttermilk

Etymology 2

Compare frig, jig

Verb

whig (third-person singular simple present whigs, present participle whigging, simple past and past participle whigged)

1. (transitive) Urge forward; drive briskly.
2. (intransitive) Jog along; move or work briskly.
3. (transitive) Weird out or disturb someone.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English whig.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wi?/

Noun

whig m (plural whigs)

1. Whig

Further reading

• “whig” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English whig.

Adjective

whig (invariable)

1. (relational) Whig

Noun

whig m (invariable)

1. Whig