dairy
pronunciation
How to pronounce dairy in British English:
UK [ˈdeəri]
How to pronounce dairy in American English:
US [ˈderi]
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- Noun:
- a farm where dairy products are produced
Word Origin
- dairy
- dairy: [13] Etymologically, a dairy is a place where a female kneader of bread works. The term for such an operative in Old English was dǣge, which came from the same Indo- European base (*dheigh-) as produced dough and the second syllable of lady. In Middle English this became deie or daye, and gradually progressed in meaning through ‘female servant’ in general to ‘female farm-servant’ and ‘dairymaid’, concerned with the keeping of milk and making it into butter and cheese (the word survived into modern times in Scottish English). From it was derived deierie or dayerie, to denote the place where such a woman worked.=> dough, lady
- dairy (n.)
- late 13c., "building for making butter and cheese; dairy farm," formed with Anglo-French -erie affixed to Middle English daie (in daie maid "dairymaid"), from Old English dæge "kneader of bread, housekeeper, female servant" (see dey (n.1)). The purely native word was dey-house.
Example
- 1. Until now , dairy sales in china had been booming .
- 2. Marketing boards still control the production and import of dairy and poultry products .
- 3. The fears go beyond dairy .
- 4. The new dairy takes this trend to its ultimate conclusion .
- 5. Meat or dairy produced this way has little extra environmental impact .