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usually uncountable, plural wheys
The liquid remaining after milk has been curdled and strained in the process of making cheese. quotations examples
Little Miss Muffet, She sat on a tuffet, Eating of curds and whey; There came a little spider, Who sat down beside her, And frighted Miss Muffet away.
1805, Songs for the Nursery, page 23
{...} if I wished any blessing in the world, it was to find him a worthy object of pride; and I’m bitterly disappointed with the whey-faced, whining wretch!
1847, Emily Brontë, chapter XX, in Wuthering Heights