dairy
(also dairy products or dairy produce) Products produced from milk.
Noun 3 meanings
(also dairy products or dairy produce) Products produced from milk.
A place that produces, processes, or sells such products:
“Go and fetch the butter from the dairy.”
A corner store, superette or minimart.
Adjective 3 meanings
Referring to products produced from milk.
Referring to the milk production and processing industries.
On food labelling, containing fats only from dairy sources (e.g. dairy ice cream).
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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DAIRY at a glance
DAIRY has 5 letters and scores 9 points in Scrabble (D 2 + A 1 + I 1 + R 1 + Y 4) and 8 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #6,026 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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