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whey is a noun meaning "the serum or watery part of milk that is separated from the curd in making cheese". It carries 2 recorded senses.
watery part of milk produced when raw milk sours and coagulates
“Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet eating some curds and whey”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for whey come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.