sweet milk
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sweet milk noun Fresh, whole milk (in contrast to butter milk). [DARE labels this term “especially South, South Midland”]
1862 Huntley CW Letters (March 17) I Went out yesterdi evning and Baught me a quart of Sweat milk it hope me vary mutch I think if I could git milk and Butter that I Would git fat. 1921 Campbell Sthn Highlander 202 Buttermilk is a favorite beverage, referred to usually as "milk." If the guest wishes “sweet milk” he must so designate it. 1939 Hall Coll (Big Creek NC) Take the roots and beat it up, put sweet milk in it, and put it on it and it'll draw it white, and cure it up. 1972 Cooper NC Mt Folklore 26 Every country home had its springhouse, where buttermilk, sweet milk and butter were kept cold. 2003 Cavender Folk Medicine 12 Buttermilk was a favorite beverage and much preferred over “sweet milk.”