dairy
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- Words With Friends
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- Letters
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/ˈdɛə.ɹi/
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/ˈdɛə.ɹi/ · /ˈdɛɚ.i/ · /ˈdɛɹ.i/ · /ˈdeːɹi/ · /ˈdeəɹi/ · /ˈdiəɹi/ · /ˈdeɹɪ/ · /deɹe/ · /ˈdɜːɹɪ/
Definition of dairy
10 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
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(uncountable)(also dairy products or dairy produce) Products produced from milk.
“My routine changed in February because I stopped alcohol, caffeine and dairy. Normally, I would have drunk a strong beer before I went to bed and made an espresso in the morning. It’s boring now but healthier.”
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noun
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(uncountable)(also dairy products or dairy produce) Products produced from milk.
“My routine changed in February because I stopped alcohol, caffeine and dairy. Normally, I would have drunk a strong beer before I went to bed and made an espresso in the morning. It’s boring now but healthier.”
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(countable, uncountable)A place that produces, processes, or sells such products:
“Go and fetch the butter from the dairy.”
- (countable, uncountable)A place that produces, processes, or sells such products:
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(countable, uncountable)A place that produces, processes, or sells such products:
“Can you go and buy some yoghurt and blue cheese from the dairy?”
- (New-Zealand, countable, uncountable)A corner store, superette or minimart.
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(countable, in-plural, slang, uncountable, vulgar)A woman's breast.
“Her dairies as Wallop had called them were on display, or at least as much of them as she and Ruth could not contrive to cover.”
adj
- (not-comparable)Referring to products produced from milk.
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(not-comparable, specifically)Referring to products produced from milk.
“Is this milk dairy or soy?”
- (not-comparable)Referring to the milk production and processing industries.
- (British, not-comparable)On food labelling, containing fats only from dairy sources (e.g. dairy ice cream).
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English deyerie (“dairy, dairy farm”), from Anglo-Norman deyerie (“dairy”), from deye (“dairymaid”) + -erie (“-ery”); by surface analysis, dey (“dairymaid”) + -ry. Cognate with Scots dery, dyrie.
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