dairy

plural dairies

1. uncountable(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.

   2023 May 14, Alix Strauss, “How the Head of a Filmmaking Center Spends His Sundays”, in The New York Times

2. A place that produces, processes, or sells such products:
   1. countableuncountableA place, often on a farm, where milk is processed and turned into products such as butter and cheese.

      Go and fetch the butter from the dairy.

   2. countableuncountableA dairy farm.
   3. countableuncountableA shop selling dairy products.

      Can you go and buy some yoghurt and blue cheese from the dairy?

      Synonyms: milkhouse, milkery

3. New ZealandcountableuncountableA corner store, superette or minimart.
4. countablein pluralslanguncountablevulgarA 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.

   2011, Kate Moore, To Seduce an Angel

1. not comparableReferring to products produced from milk.
   1. not comparablespecificallyReferring to products produced from animal milk as opposed to non-milk substitutes.

      Is this milk dairy or soy?

2. not comparableReferring to the milk production and processing industries.
3. UKnot comparableOn food labelling, containing fats only from dairy sources (e.g. dairy ice cream).