milk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: mĭlk
ipa: /mɪlk/
ipa: [mɛlk]
rhymes: -ɪlk
rhymes: -ɛlk
Forms: form: milks
form: milking
form: milked
form: milked
Etymology: From Middle English milken, from Old English melcan, from Proto-Germanic *melkaną, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂melǵ-, the same root as the noun. Compare Dutch and German melken, Danish malke, Norwegian mjølke, also Latin mulgeō (“I milk”), Ancient Greek ἀμέλγω (amélgō, “I milk”), Albanian mjel (“to milk”), Russian молоко́ (molokó), Lithuanian mélžti, Tocharian A mālk-.
Senses: examples: text: The farmer milked his cows.
text: I haue giuen Sucke, and know / How tender 'tis to loue the Babe that milkes me[…]
ref: c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene vii], page 135, column 2:
glosses: To express milk from (a mammal, especially a cow).
examples: text: to milk wholesome milk from healthy cows
glosses: To draw (milk) from the breasts or udder.
examples: text: The black cow milking white milk, black hen on the nest laying white eggs.
ref: 1890, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 2, page 84:
glosses: To secrete (milk) from the breasts or udder.
examples: text: The Australian government has a team that regularly milks various snakes for venom to use creating serums and antivenoms.
text: He captures animals for zoos around the world... and milks cobra snakes for their venom.
ref: 1966, Bruce Brown, director, The Endless Summer:
glosses: To express a liquid from a creature.
examples: text: When the audience began laughing, the comedian milked the joke for more laughs.
text: July 21, 1877, "The Block in the Courts" in The Spectator
They [the lawyers] milk an unfortunate estate as regularly as a dairyman does his stock.
text: If nothing else, José Mourinho can be grateful there was no mutiny. He still heard his name being sung and at the final whistle Old Trafford was not too unkind on the manager or his players. He milked it, too, marching over to the Stretford End to thank them for their generosity.
ref: 2018 August 27, Daniel Taylor, “Lucas Moura double for Spurs deepens gloom at Manchester United”, in The Guardian (London):
glosses: To make excessive use of (a particular point in speech or writing, a source of funds, etc.); to exploit; to take advantage of (something).
glosses: To give off small gas bubbles during the final part of the charging operation.
raw_tags: of an electrical storage battery
examples: text: Controlled milking can actually establish and consolidate a mistress’s dominance over her sub rather than diminish it.
text: “No, no, no! When a male is in chas-ti-ty,” (Clive always drew out this word and also slavery, emphasizing every syllable to give it extra importance) “he should receive regular milking to maintain good hygiene.” (Yet more kinky behavior cloaked as healthy living.) “Milking helps flush out the toxins which accumulate within the prostate gland of a chaste male.”
ref: 2015, Joyce Snyder, Mistress Pussycat: Adventures with Submissive Men in the World of Femdom, Headpress, →ISBN:
topics: BDSM
lifestyle
sexuality
synonyms: masturbate
glosses: To masturbate a male to ejaculation, especially for the amusement or satisfaction of the masturbator rather than the person masturbated.
Derived terms: milkable
milker
milking
milking machine
milking table
milk the clock
remilk
unmilkable
unmilked
Related terms: dairy
dairy product
MILC
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