DAIRY
What does "DAIRY" mean?
A building or business where milk and milk products are produced, processed, or sold.
Meanings
- A place where milk, butter, cheese, and other milk products are made or handled. Fresh cream arrived from the dairy each morning.
- Milk and products made from milk, considered as a food category. He cut dairy from his diet for a month.
- Relating to milk and its production. They run a small dairy farm in the valley.
Did you know?
- 'Dairy' and 'lady' share a buried root: both go back to an Old English word meaning a kneader of bread, so the place for milk is named after a bread-maker, not a milkmaid.
Word origin
From Middle English 'deyerie', from 'deye' meaning a female servant or dairymaid, from Old English 'dæge', a kneader of bread.
Remember it
DAIRY = 'D' + AIRY; don't confuse it with DIARY - the milk one keeps its A up front, by the cows in the AIR-y barn.
A little poem
Cool stone, white pails-
the herd's slow morning gathered
into one bright jug.
haiku
Wordplay
- I keep mixing up 'dairy' and 'diary' - one churns the milk, the other churns my secrets.
What it teaches
A single swapped letter can send you to the wrong barn entirely; order is meaning.
Quick facts
What does DAIRY mean?
A building or business where milk and milk products are produced, processed, or sold.
Is DAIRY a valid word?
Yes — DAIRY is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is DAIRY?
DAIRY has 5 letters and 2 syllables.
Where does DAIRY come from?
From Middle English 'deyerie', from 'deye' meaning a female servant or dairymaid, from Old English 'dæge', a kneader of bread.
What can DAIRY teach us?
A single swapped letter can send you to the wrong barn entirely; order is meaning.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.