# milkshake
## English
### Etymology

From milk +‎ shake.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmɪlk.ʃeɪk/, [ˈmɪɫk.ʃeɪk]
* Audio (US):(file)
* Audio (General Australian):(file)

### Noun

milkshake (plural milkshakes)
* A thick beverage consisting of milk and ice cream mixed together, often with fruit, chocolate, or other flavoring.
* (New England, Australia, New Zealand) A thin beverage, similar to the above, but with no ice cream or significantly less of it.
* A beverage consisting of fruit juice, water, and some milk, as served in Southeast Asia.
* (mechanics, informal) Accidental emulsion of oil and water in an engine.
    This milkshake under the oil cap, or on the dipstick, indicates a blown head gasket.
* (slang, horse racing) An alkaline supplement administered to a horse to improve its racing performance.

#### Synonyms

* (thick beverage): frappe (New England), cabinet (Rhode Island), thickshake (Australia, New Zealand)

#### Derived terms

* milkshakelike
* milkshakey
* milkshake duck

#### Translations
### Verb

milkshake (third-person singular simple present milkshakes, present participle milkshaking, simple past and past participle milkshaked)
* (transitive, slang, horse racing) To administer an alkaline supplement to (a horse) to improve its racing performance.
* (transitive, informal, neologism) To throw a milkshake at (a person).
    A politician was milkshaked during the protest.
** 2019 May 26, Stewart Lee, “Are milkshakes the new politics of resistance?”, in The Guardian‎:Indeed, the day before Farage was milkshaked, Leave EU issued an unauthorised, and now withdrawn, re-edit of a Beastie Boys video, showing him and Ann Widdecombe pouring beer over their political opponents.

### See also

* frappe
* coffee cabinet
* malt
* malted milk

## Danish
### Noun

milkshake c (singular definite milkshaken, plural indefinite milkshakes)
* milkshake

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “milkshake” in Den Danske Ordbog

## Dutch
### Etymology

Borrowed from English milkshake.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmɪlk.ʃeːk/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: milk‧shake

### Noun

milkshake m (plural milkshakes, diminutive milkshakeje n)
* milkshake

## French
### Alternative forms

* milk-shake

### Etymology

Borrowed from English milkshake.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /milk.ʃɛk/

### Noun

milkshake m (plural milkshakes)
* milkshake
    Synonym: (North America) lait frappé

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

From English milkshake.

### Noun

milkshake m (definite singular milkshaken, indefinite plural milkshaker, definite plural milkshakene)
* a milkshake

### References

* “milkshake” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology

From English milkshake.

### Noun

milkshake m (definite singular milkshaken, indefinite plural milkshakar, definite plural milkshakane)
* a milkshake

### References

* “milkshake” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English milkshake.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˌmiw.kiˈʃej.ki/ [ˌmiʊ̯.kiˈʃeɪ̯.ki]
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˌmiw.kiˈʃej.ki/ [ˌmiʊ̯.kiˈʃeɪ̯.ki]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˌmiw.keˈʃej.ke/ [ˌmiʊ̯.keˈʃeɪ̯.ke]
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˌmil.kɨˈʃɐj.kɨ/ [ˌmiɫ.kɨˈʃɐj.kɨ]
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˌmil.kɨˈʃɐj.kɨ/ [ˌmiɫ.kɨˈʃɐj.kɨ]
** (Northern Portugal) IPA: /ˌmil.kɨˈʃej.kɨ/ [ˌmiɫ.kɨˈʃej.kɨ]
** (Central Portugal) IPA: /ˌmil.kɨˈʃej.kɨ/ [ˌmiɫ.kɨˈʃej.kɨ]
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /ˌmil.kɨˈʃe.kɨ/ [ˌmiɫ.kɨˈʃe.kɨ]

### Noun

milkshake m (plural milkshakes)
* milkshake (milk beverage with or without ice cream)
    Synonym: batido

## Spanish
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English milkshake.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmilɡʃeik/ [ˈmilɣ̞.ʃei̯k]
* Rhymes: -ilɡʃeik

### Noun

milkshake m (plural milkshakes)
* milkshake (milk and ice cream beverage)
** 2011, José Miguel Aguilera, Ingeniería Gastronómica, Ediciones UC, →ISBN, page 120:La manera de estabilizar una espuma por largos períodos es rigidizando las paredes de manera de obtener una matriz muy espesa como en los milkshakes, semisólida como en las sustancias (marshmallows), o definitivamente sólida como en los ...(please add an English translation of this quotation)
** 2015, Thalita Rebouças, ¡¿En serio, amiga?!, VR Editoras, →ISBN:Fue sirviendo las mesas hasta llegar a la nuestra, con los milkshakes y... un licuado de plátano. Que nadie pidió.(please add an English translation of this quotation)
** 2017, Emma Sepúlveda, Gringosincrasias: Cómo sobrevivir en Estados Unidos y entender su idiosincrasia, Editorial Catalonia, →ISBN:Cuando piden cinco hamburguesas con tres bolsitas de papas fritas, una cajita con un tremendo pedazo de pie de manzana, y dos milkshakes, en el Burger King, no tendrían para qué sentirse culpables al pedir los 3 litros de Coca Cola ...(please add an English translation of this quotation)

#### Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

## Swedish
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English milkshake.

### Noun

milkshake c
* milkshake

#### Declension
### References

* milkshake in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* milkshake in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)