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noun
a milk serum, separating as liquid from the curd after coagulation, as in cheese making.
Origin:
before 900; Middle English wheye, Old English hwǣg; cognate with Dutch, Low German wei
before 900; Middle English wheye, Old English hwǣg; cognate with Dutch, Low German wei
Related forms
whey·like, adjective
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whey (weɪ) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| the watery liquid that separates from the curd when the milk is clotted, as in making cheese | |
| [Old English hwǣg; related to Middle Low German wei, heie, Dutch hui] | |
| 'wheyey | |
| —adj | |
| 'wheyish | |
| —adj | |
| 'wheylike | |
| —adj | |
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Whey
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc. |
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Word Origin & History
whey
O.E. hwæg "whey," from P.Gmc. *khwaja- (cf. M.Du. wey, Du. wei), of unknown origin.
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Encyclopedia Britannica
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whey
watery fraction that forms along with curd when milk coagulates. It contains the water-soluble constituents of milk and is essentially a 5 percent solution of lactose in water, with some minerals and lactalbumin.
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Example sentences
They feed whey, a byproduct of cheesemaking, to a herd of pigs.
If mixture is too thick to stir, add another tablespoon of whey.
Whey they do, it is certainly the beginning of the end.
We examined the effect of feeding a whey protein mixture on subsequent tumor formation in the intestines of rats.
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