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milk

UK/mɪlk/ US/mɛlk/ common informal slang
noun (4) verb (3)

noun

1.

a white nutritious liquid secreted by mammals and used as food by human beings

2.

produced by mammary glands of female mammals for feeding their young

3.

a river that rises in the Rockies in northwestern Montana and flows eastward to become a tributary of the Missouri River

Synonyms
4.

any of several nutritive milklike liquids

verb

1.

take milk from female mammals

  • “Cows need to be milked every morning”
2.

exploit as much as possible

  • “I am milking this for all it”
3.

add milk to

  • “milk the tea”

Origin

From Middle English milk, mylk, melk, mulc, from Old English meolc, meoluc (“milk”), from Proto-West Germanic *meluk (“milk”), from Proto-Germanic *meluks (“milk”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂melǵ- (“milk, to milk”).

Phrases

  • acid of milk
  • African milk barrel
  • African milk tree
  • age like milk
  • almond milk
  • Amazon milk frog
  • Aval Milk
  • baby milk
  • dairy product
  • milk the clock
  • milking machine
  • milking table

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