milk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: mĭlk
ipa: /mɪlk/
ipa: [mɛlk]
rhymes: -ɪlk
rhymes: -ɛlk
Forms: form: milks
Etymology: From Middle English milk, mylk, melk, mulc, from Old English meolc, meoluc (“milk”), from Proto-West Germanic *meluk, from Proto-Germanic *meluks, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂melǵ-.
Cognates
Cognate with West Frisian molke, Dutch melk, Dutch Low Saxon melk, German Milch, German Low German Melk, Yiddish מילך (milkh), Danish mælk, Norwegian Bokmål mjølk, melk, Norwegian Nynorsk mjølk, Swedish mjölk, Icelandic mjólk, Faroese mjólk, Greek αμέλγω (amélgo, “to milk”), Albanian mjel (“to milk”), Polish mleko, Russian молоко́ (molokó), Welsh blith, Tocharian A malke, Lithuanian malkas and Latvian malks.
Senses: examples: text: Skyr is a product made of curdled milk.
text: 2007 September 24, Chris Horseman (interviewee), Emily Harris (reporter), “Global Dairy Demand Drives Up Prices”, Morning Edition, National Public Radio
[…] there's going to be that much less milk available to cover any other uses. Which means whether it's liquid milk or whether it's [milk that's been turned into] cheese or yogurt, the price gets pulled up right across the board.
text: In the West it's' fairly normal to drink milk in various forms into adulthood.
ref: 2017, Adam Rutherford, A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived, The Experiment, →ISBN, page 75:
synonyms: word: dairy milk
word: cowmilk
english: often implied
translation: often implied
glosses: A white liquid produced by the mammary glands of female mammals to nourish their young. From certain animals, especially cows, it is also called dairy milk and is a common food for humans as a beverage or used to produce various dairy products such as butter, cheese, and yogurt.
examples: text: Where it does fall down, however, is its nutritional value. While oats are largely a healthy grain to include in your diet, the milk is highly diluted with water, giving it little nutritional value.
ref: 2018 September 16, Alexandra Spring, “'Milk' mania: why most alternatives aren't great – but camel milk just might be”, in The Guardian:
text: For environmentally minded consumers, the news is hard to swallow: almond milk is not healthy for the planet and the popular milk substitute is especially hard on bees.
ref: 2020 January 29, Annette McGivney, “Almonds are out. Dairy is a disaster. So what milk should we drink?”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: m*lk
mylk
non-dairy milk
plant milk
glosses: A white (or whitish) liquid obtained from a vegetable source such as almonds, coconuts, oats, rice, or soy beans.
examples: text: Table three ordered three milks.
glosses: An individual serving of milk.
examples: text: I take my tea with two milks and two sugars.
text: I take my tea with two milk and two sugar.
text: She just sat there drinking cup after cup of strong coffee, with two milks and two sugars.
ref: 2014, Don Eggspuehler, Teachings From Pop, Author House, →ISBN, page 459:
text: Five minutes later, he returned with Justin's large coffee with two milk and two sweeteners and a black coffee for himself.
ref: 2015, Carolyn Arnold, City of Gold: (Mathew Connor Adventure Series Book 1), Hibbert & Stiles Publishing Inc., →ISBN:
text: Mrs. Dale huffed up to the counter and fired her battle-axe stare at the attendant. “One medium tea. ... Two double-doubles, and one with two milk and two sweeteners.”
ref: 2019, Maggie Blackbird, Redeemed: The Matawapit Family Series, #1, eXtasy Books, →ISBN, page 349:
text: She placed on her desk a brown paper bag; it held her breakfast, cream cheese on a toasted bagel and coffee with two milks and one sugar.
ref: 2020, John Mitton, Tedmund and the Murdered Heiress, Page Publishing, Inc, →ISBN:
glosses: An individual portion of milk, such as found in a creamer, for tea and coffee.
glosses: The ripe, undischarged spat of an oyster.
glosses: Semen.
Derived terms: acid of milk
African milk barrel
African milk tree
age like milk
almondmilk
almond milk
almond-milk
Amazon milk frog
antimilk
Aval Milk
baby milk
boob milk
bread and milk
breakfast milk
breast milk
buttermilk
cashew milk
cat milk
Channel Island milk
chocolate milk
choco milk
coconut milk
coffee milk
condensed milk
cowmilk
cow milk
cow's milk
crop milk
cry over spilt milk
cry over spilled milk
dick milk
dog milk
don't cry over spilled milk
don't teach your grandmother how to milk ducks
dried milk
dysphoric milk ejection reflex
evaporated milk
filled milk
first milk
flavored milk
flavoured milk
flax milk
fore-milk
foremilk
full cream milk
glacial milk
glacier milk
goatmilk
goat milk
goat's milk
goat's-milk cheese
goat's milk cheese
golden milk
gold-top milk
green milk
hazelnut milk
hemp milk
hindmilk
hold my milk
homogenized milk
homo milk
horsemilk
horse milk
hot milk cake
hot-milk cake
human milk
ice milk
iced milk
land of milk and honey
lapper-milk
litmus milk
low-fat milk
malted milk
man-milk
man milk
mare's milk
mild as milk
milk abscess
milk acid
milkaholic
milkoholic
milk albuminate
milk-alkali syndrome
milk-and-water
milk-and-wateriness
milk-and-watery
milkbag
milk bar
milk-bar cowboy
milk before meat
milkborne
milk bottle
milkbox
milkboy
milk bread
milk brother
milk-brother
milkbush
milk camel
milk can
milk-cap
milk cap
milkcap
milk caps
milk card
milk carton
milk chocolate
milk churn
milk cow
milkcrate
milk crate
milk crust
milk delivery door
milk dentition
milk door
milk drinker
milk-drunk
milk duct
milken
milkery
milk factory
milkfat
milk fat
milkfed
milk-fed
milk fever
milk fiber
milk fibre
milkfish
milk float
milk food
milk-free
milk fruit
milkful
milk glass
milk gravy
milk hedge
milkhouse
milk-house
milk house
milk ice
milkie
milkiness
milkish
milk jug
milk knot
milk leg
milkless
milklike
milk line
milk-livered
milk-maid
milkmaid
milkmaiden
milk maker
milk-maker
milkman
milk mirror
milk monitor
milk moon
milk mother
milk-mother
milk moustache
milk mustache
milko
milk of amnesia
milk of human kindness
milk of lime
milk of magnesia
milk of roses
Milkomeda
Milkdromeda
milkpan
milk pan
milk parsley
milk pea
milkperson
milk powder
milkpox
milk product
milk pudding
milk punch
milk replacer
milk roll
milk round
milk run
milk-sap
milk saucepan
milk scall
milkshake
milk-shake
milk shake
milkshed
milk sibling
milk-sibling
milk sickness
milksicle
milk sister
milk-sister
milk skin
milk snake
milksnake
milksop
milksoppery
milksoppish
milksoppy
milk spot
milkstache
milkstain
milkstained
milkstone
milk stout
milk substitute
milk sugar
milk sweet
milk tea
milk the clock
milk thistle
milk toast
milktoast
milk token
milk tongue
milk tooth
milk-tooth
milk train
milktree
milk truck
milk tusk
milkvetch
milk-vetch
milk vetch
milk voucher
milk-warm
milkweed
milk-white
milkwhite
milkwoman
milkwood
milk wool
milkwort
milky
Milky Way
moon milk
moonmilk
moose milk
mother's milk
mountain milk
mylk
neonatal milk
nonmilk
nut milk
oat milk
one-percent milk
1% milk
overmilk
pale as milk
peanut milk
pigeon milk
pigeon's milk
pilk
plant milk
powdered milk
premilk
producer milk
raw milk
reduced-fat milk
rice milk
saffron milk cap
semi-skimmed milk
share milk
share-milk
sharemilk
sheep milk
skimmed milk
skim milk
soured milk
sour milk
soymilk
soy milk
soy milk maker
spilt milk
sugar of milk
sweet milk
swill milk
that accounts for the milk in the coconut
there's no point crying over spilt milk
there's no use crying over spilt milk
three-milk cake
tiger's milk
two-percent milk
2% milk
ugly milk-cap
UHT milk
undermilk
unmilky
whole milk
why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free
witches' milk
witch's milk
wolf's milk
wolf's-milk
Related terms: milch