Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A custardlike food with a tart flavor, prepared from milk curdled by bacteria, especially Lactobacillus bulgaricus and Streptococcus thermophilus, and often sweetened or flavored with fruit.
Wiktionary
- n. A milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process, and sometimes mixed with fruit or other flavoring.
- n. Any similar product based on other substances (e.g. soy yogurt).
WordNet 3.0
- n. a custard-like food made from curdled milk
Etymologies
- Ottoman Turkish یوغورت (yōghurt, yoğurt) (Turkish yoğurt ) (Wiktionary)
- Turkish yoğart, yoğurt, from yoğur, to knead. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“If you can't find jocoque, a mixture of half sour cream and half regular plain yogurt is an acceptable substitute.”
“The taste of a good plain yogurt is full of lactic acid, a natural byproduct of fermentation that also gives depth to the flavors of foods like Parmesan cheese and prosciutto.”
“So, the slow churned "yogurt" is really like eating milk with corn syryp and flavoring in there.”
“Her snack ideas: celery and salsa; fat-free plain yogurt with fruit (cooked apple, pineapple, berries in season and on sale); baked apple with cinnamon and Splenda; warmed low-fat cheese (Laughing Cow wedges) with a light, toasted English muffin.”
“Also, you can use buttermilk or even plain yogurt instead of milk if you like.”
“Jocoque, a thick yogurt, is spooned over the hot chilaquiles.”
“Basically these are bacterial cultures much like those in yogurt, given to cattle in their feed.”
“The yogurt may also be made well ahead (or purchased, if strained Greek yogurt is available where you live).”
“Just FYI, while certainly an interesting creation, GG yogurt is not Greek yogurt.”
“Grated zest of 1 lemon (I omitted this) 1/2 cup plain yogurt”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘yogurt’.
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food collection
bread, peel, pot, chorizo, Filet, olive, fill, Phyllo, dough, bake, mat, pinot and 988 more...
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A great ferment
sauerkraut, kvass, kumis, yogurt, pulque, sourdough, kimchi, skyr, lassi, vinegar, miso, surströmming and 12 more...
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him and i
peach, left, alone, abandon, horid, gay, bloody, beautiful, outside, inside, confused, unconditional and 111 more...
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Dain's Words
rabble, terminus, archaic, atavism, demiurge, waylay, syzygy, jocoserious, quark, entropy, cinnabar, shamble and 912 more...
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mandarine's Words
antepenultimate, metonymy, synecdoche, pop, kern, inherit, clique, scrumptious, macerate, murmur, kerning, veranda and 1068 more...
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Favorite Words of AWP13
We asked attendees who visited the Wordnik booth what their favorite words were, and these are what they told us. (AWP is an annual conference for writers and those in the writing world.)
cling, declivity, susurrus, caramel, cataract, please, fester, reverie, kerplunk!, defenestration, colonel, ocean and 174 more...
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food
food, chef, spice, salt, sugar, pumpkin, apples, fruit, vegetable, savory, soup, sauce and 280 more...
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words my 19-month-old daughter says
We'll skip people's names.
basketball, light, railroad, mommy, daddy, up, hand, gate, walk, kitty, doggie, cat and 145 more...
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Food
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spaghetti, yogurt, muesli, rarebit, wheat, cream, cheese, pumpkin, custard, couscous, oats, sausage and 237 more...
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Words that are fun to say
stipple, carbuncle, dongle, exemplar, misbegotten, gigolo, salubrious, jupiter, propinquity, piglet, tobogganing, supercilious and 309 more...
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Kaichi's Wordie Darlings, or I'm a Lo...
persnickety, discombobulated, braggadoccio, anthropomorphous, antelucan, confluxible, anomalous, poseur, gallivant, poppycock, falderal, gewgaw and 705 more...
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sfan
wan, citroen, aramaic, arabic, hebrew, mosque, oran, synagogue, anisette, almighty, blum, cremieux and 55 more...
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I'd rather not say
words that grate on my nerves (mainly because of the way they sound, not what they mean)
yogurt, belly, asthma, spruce, daisy, rutabaga, petunia, toot, fecal, oodles, pansy, buddy and 20 more...
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edibles
delicious sounding foodstuffs
relish, lolla rossa, thyme, alfalfa, radish, apple, lemon, lentil, aubergine, spinach, aniseed, fenugreek and 23 more...
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Food Words I Like
endive, chipotle, apricot, gourmand, buongustaio, frappe, frittata, cilantro, cardamom, empanada, hominy, compote and 37 more...
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OM3 Lesson 36
exit, feel like, Baskin Robbins, banana split, share, coupon, good for, deal, scoop, pistachio, cup, cone and 14 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for yogurt.
whichbe If I had a yurt I would surely eat more yogurt. Jan 10, 2009
chained_bear You know what I heard this weekend? You know why New Jersey has all the toxic waste, while California has all the lawyers?
Because New Jersey got first pick.
A-HUH! HUH-HUH! <--upper-class twit laugh. Oct 23, 2007
skipvia Consider further that Yoplait yogurt is made in New Jersey. Kind of destroys the cachet... Oct 23, 2007
uselessness I guess that would be a matter of opinion. They may have thought that it's not immediately clear how to pronounce Danone ("dan OWN"? "dah NUN"?) and decided to go with something more phonetic in English. It's perfectly clear, this way, that it's meant to rhyme with cannon. To my ears, it connotes strength and vitality; that is some tough yogurt! Contrast that with their primary competitor, Yoplait, which sounds foofy and pretty and French. :-P Oct 23, 2007
frangarnes Yes, they're the same. I didn't know they changed the name in the US. Does the word Danone sound in English such badly that they changed it to Dannon? Oct 22, 2007
uselessness I wonder if that's related to the Dannon yogurt brand we have in the United States. Oct 22, 2007
frangarnes In Spain, the trademark 'danone' is associated to yogurt. We usually use the word danone but the word yogurt Oct 22, 2007