dogmilk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: In ancient times, it was usually the great ladies of the land who fell victim to the beauty-quack’s devices. Desires or no desires—working women were then too desperately impoverished to purchase even a drop of the charlatan’s fantastic concoctions. So, for a long time, it was the Cleopatras and the Princess Olgas who were kept busy [“]shelling out”—for the doubtful privilege of having their bald spots rubbed with frog’s blood and boiled dogmilk!
ref: 1936 September 19, Patricia Lennon, “What Price Beauty?”, in Daily Clarion, volume XV, number 972, Toronto, Ont., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 5, column 1:
text: It Is Dogmilk For Zoo Lion Cub / MILAN, Italy AP [Associated Press]—It’s a dog’s life for Leo, a month-old lion cub at the Milan zoo. Leo’s mother has no milk, so Mrs. Maria Molinar, the zoo director, appealed for help. She was offered a mother German shepherd dog that is suckling a litter of pups. Leo moved in just like one of the family.
ref: 1955 September 2, The News Tribune, 72nd year, number 338, Tacoma, Wash., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 11, column 8:
text: The next morning I returned to find the puppies licked white between occasional fur clouds of black or brown on their backs or heads. Two of them were nudging for udders and, when they found them, slugged their little heads against them in blind fury for dogmilk.
ref: 1975, Samuel [John] Hazo, “Earthscript: Notes in the Name of Dust”, in Inscripts, Athens, Oh.: Ohio University Press, →ISBN, page 114:
text: When I come home from the 7/11 with dogmilk and a paper, Lil is sitting at the picnic table messing with fishing poles.
ref: 1989, Chrysler Szarlan, “Fishing”, in Common Lives/Lesbian Lives, numbers 29–32, Iowa City, Ia., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 7:
text: “[…] But what’s the fuckin’ panic, man? I need to loosen up and party down.” He reached for his vodka-dogmilk martini with visible annoyance. “Loosen up, my friend.”
ref: 1989 summer, D. Krolz-6, “Green Oatmeal Electro-Fuck on Level Six”, in Darby [i.e., Deborah Romeo], editor, Ben Is Dead, number 5, Hollywood, Calif.: Darby, →OCLC, page 17, column 2:
text: I am sorry for the late reaction, but try milk suitable for baby-dogs. The milk of rabbitmothers is verry^([sic]) fat and i^([sic]) suppose that haremilk is fat also. In the Netherlands dogmilk is the closest milk.
ref: 1999 April 29, tnijmeijer, “please help bunnies live at stake”, in alt.animals.breeders.rabbits (Usenet), archived from the original on 07 Jun 2025:
text: > (EXCERPT) NEW YORK (AP) - Carl von Clausewitz called it ``the fog of
> war - the confusion and terror of armed conflict.
>
I guess that excuses Philth Coleman and all his imaginary alter-egos...I think you been nipping the dogmilk again boy...
ref: 2001 May 2, Mac McKinzie, “'Fog of War' Lingers Post Cease-Fire, by RICHARD PYLE, Associated Press Writer”, in alt.war.vietnam (Usenet), archived from the original on 07 Jun 2025:
text: 'There's other beers they could drink,' said Sherwin. 'I mean if they can't get hold of your Brown Bottles.' / The man sadly acknowledged the truth of this. 'You mean that muck the Boys drink, the Green Bottle – Dogmilk Residue or whatever it is they call it.' […] 'You mean …' said Sherwin slowly. ' You mean they actually sell that Dogmilk Green Bottle stuff of theirs outside Mottleshire – just like you,' - he turned to the Highwash man - 'sell your Brown Bottles.'
ref: 2007, DVK Tankervan [pseudonym; A. R. Raymond], Mottleshire Broth, →ISBN, pages 156 and 180:
text: My mouth recalls the taste of dogmilk-and fear. What Granny must've tasted that night, after I'd grown older, and slipped beneath the feathertick^([sic]) of her bed, the bone handle of the butcher knife gleaming white in the moonlight streaming through the cracked pane of glass abover her head. It's me, Granny, I told her before I started in upon her. It's Dogbeak.
ref: 2020, Dave Sims, “Dogbeak”, in The Carcass & Other Stories, Ellicott City, Mo.: UnCollected Press, →ISBN, page 34:
text: Dogmilk-Instant
ref: [2021], “Dr.Clauder’s”, in [Stealing/Chewing Do Don`t], page 79:
glosses: Rare form of dog milk.