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/hweɪ/ · noun
The liquid remaining after milk has been curdled and strained in the process of making cheese..
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.
{...} 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!
He swayed over to the door, peered out, shouted "whey!" and came back, looking severe.
somebody who was more or less to their senses, shouted... ' Whey! ... Had on lads!' and everybody was trying to get wocken up and sorted out.
... apart from Max, who rode his pallet like a surfboard with a huge grin plastered across his face. “Wheyyyyyyy!” Max yelled with delight.
Several drunken men shouted from the corner. “Wheyyyy, showtime! Go on, go on!”
12. Smashing a glass and the whole bar choruses "WHEYYYY".
If they don't shout "wheyyy" when you smash a glass, did it even smash?
Use whey when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Whey means The liquid remaining after milk has been curdled and strained in the process of making cheese..
Common synonyms include milk whey.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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.
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