Noun: dairy
| Singular | dairy |
| Plural | dairies |
Sample Sentences
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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. [2023 May 14, Alix Strauss, “How the Head of a Filmmaking Center Spends His Sundays”, in The New York Times:]
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Go and fetch the butter from the dairy.
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Can you go and buy some yoghurt and blue cheese from the dairy?
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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. [2011, Kate Moore, To Seduce an Angel:]
Nouns inflected like dairy
clitoridectomy,
royal jelly,
whoopsy,
surrogacy,
urinary,
rastrography,
renoscopy,
sourtop blueberry,
forcible entry,
superficiary,
lipidosity,
potability,
phonography,
hyperproperty,
greenery,
conjugality,
ring singularity,
Brittany,
ignobility,
obscurity, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
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. See: Middle English Nouns '
deyerie', Middle English Nouns '
deyerie'.
Verbs referencing "dairy"
Irish Nouns
déirí.