dairy

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   (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.

2. 2
   noun

   A place that produces, processes, or sells such products:

   Go and fetch the butter from the dairy.

3. 3
   noun

   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.

4. 4
   noun

   a farm where dairy products are produced

5. 5
   noun

   A corner store, superette or minimart.

6. 6
   adj

   Referring to products produced from milk.

7. 7
   adj

   Referring to the milk production and processing industries.

8. 8
   adj

   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.