milkjug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: milkjugs
Senses: examples: text: Stephen reached back and took the milkjug from the locker.
Part II [Odyssey], [Episode 12: Cyclops], page 296:
On a handsome mahogany table near him were neatly arranged the quartering knife, the various finely tempered disembowelling appliances (specially supplied by the worldfamous firm of cutlers, Messrs John Round and Sons, Sheffield) a terracotta saucepan for the reception of the duodenum, colon, blind intestine and appendix etc when successfully extracted and two commodious milkjugs destined to receive the most precious blood of the most precious victim.
ref: Part I [Telemachia], [Episode 1: Telemachus], page 13
text: By the middle 1760s, a Worcester tea and coffee service comprised forty-three pieces. Some of these shapes, such as teapots and creamjugs, had been in use at the factory for over ten years, but others, among them teacaddies and milkjugs, had been introduced more recently. […] This style of fluted teaware is invariably found in conjunction with ogee handle forms on cups, milkjugs and barrel-shaped teapots.
ref: 1984, Simon Spero, Worcester Porcelain: The Klepser Collection, Minneapolis, Minn.: The Minneapolis Institute of Arts in association with Lund Humphries Publishers, London, →ISBN, pages 44 and 100:
text: He aimed himself to the right and a little above the powerhouse at the dam’s base, took his foot off the brakes and jammed it against his cargo of black milkjugs, pulled back on the wheel and soared steeply upward to the left. He pushed. The milkjugs tumbled out, set after set, sailing in graceful arcs toward the dam’s facade.
ref: 1989, Edward Abbey, Hayduke Lives!, New York, N.Y.; Boston, Mass.: Back Bay Books, Little, Brown and Company, published 1990, →ISBN, page 184:
text: Other Whieldon wares include cottages (with figures) and cow-creamers – milkjugs modelled in the shape of cow, with the tail curved to form the handle, the mouth pierced for the spout, and a hole in the back for filling.
ref: 1989, Judith Miller, Martin Miller, editors, Miller’s Understanding Antiques, London: Mitchell Beazley, →ISBN, page 84, column 4:
text: HDPE plastic is used in the manufacture of garden furniture, flower pots, toys, milkjugs and various other sorts of plastic containers.
ref: 1990, Joy Palmer, Recycling Plastic, New York, N.Y.: Franklin Watts, →ISBN, page 8, column 2:
text: This shape, as the name may suggest, was a variation on the Queen Anne shape – indeed only the cup shape was modified whilst plates, milkjugs etc were exactly the same.
ref: 1990, Susan Hill, The Shelley Style: A Collectors Guide, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warks: Jazz Publications, →ISBN, page 22:
text: There are hundreds, perhaps thousands, of pieces — from flowerpots to milkjugs — available from this Minnesota city’s potteries.
ref: 1991, Linda Campbell Franklin, 300 Years of Kitchen Collectibles, 3rd edition, Florence, Ala.: Books Americana, →ISBN, page 66, column 2:
text: When such a case arose, he most politely asked permission from the neighbours to do a little mousing in their homes, and the permission was willingly given, for he never touched the milkjugs, nor jumped up at the hams which hung on the walls, but went about his business quietly and attentively, and having despatched it, withdrew discreetly with the mouse in his mouth.
ref: 1993, Gottfried Keller, “Spiegel the Cat”, in Mark Bryant, editor, Cat Tales for Christmas, London: Headline Book Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 205:
text: ‘My delayed honeymoon was spent in a flat with a screeching infant, a wife with tits like milkjugs, and two of the ugliest female servants that can be got for money.’
ref: 1993, Kate Saunders, Night Shall Overtake Us, London: Century Limited, Random House, →ISBN, page 415:
text: […] I know you still are holding up the specimen bottle because it turned pink too much milk is bad for you says he shes got cant spell the thing sugar as well says he as well for him to be addressing the bedpost who spends every waking hour shes up in the bottom of the dresser among the bowls and milkjugs hes putting me over to Stornoway on Friday (Dr MacAulay) to the dentist […]
ref: 2000, Alasdair Campbell, The Nessman, Edinburgh: Birlinn, →ISBN, page 259:
text: As children, we enjoyed going to the byre and watching Jemima milking while we waited to get our milkjugs filled.
ref: 2000 December, Vi May, Sandy May, Gordon M Hay, edited by Gordon M Hay, Longside: A Parish and its People, Longside, Aberdeenshire: Longside Parish Church, →ISBN, page 518:
text: I put it together with the two cow-creamers (we call them creamers in the USA, here they’re called milkjugs, I know that, and it’s interesting that both terms have sexual connotations) and what I want to point out about them to you is that they vomit milk, which makes them fascinating cultural artefacts.
ref: 2006, Susan Hiller, “Working Through Objects, 1994”, in Charles Merewether, editor, The Archive: Documents of Contemporary Art, London: Whitechapel Gallery; Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, →ISBN, page 45:
text: Women also produced ‘little things’ to be sold door to door by their unemployed husbands, such as ornate covers for milkjugs, and doilies and hankies.
ref: 2006, David Potts, The Myth of the Great Depression, Melbourne, Vic.: Scribe, →ISBN, page 99:
text: Since John Curtis is a small school, its fans are often outnumbered. They compensate by shaking homemade noisemakers: plastic milkjugs filled with coins or dried beans.
ref: 2007, Neal Thompson, Hurricane Season: A Coach, His Team, and Their Triumph in the Time of Katrina, New York, N.Y.: Free Press, →ISBN:
text: Her green velveteen dress strained to contain a vast bosom as, arms akimbo she checked the activities. ‘What a lovely lady. Get an eyeful of those milkjugs!’
ref: 2007, John Dyson, Silver Galore, Anstey, Leics: Linford, F. A. Thorpe (Publishing), published 2008, page 46:
text: Milkjug Mask / milkjugs cut in half, masking tape, shoe polish, plastic beads, shells, ribbon, paint, yarn, buttons, wooden beads, clay, sticks, raffia, feathers, wooden tiles samples
ref: 2007 May/June, Mentor Graphic Child Development Center, “Milkjug Mask”, in Exchange, number 175, page 37:
text: What I’ve learned in these ten years, he thinks, / As he lays the teeth of the saw against the apple, / Is how to kill—without haste, without hesitation. / First the chickens, hung by the feet from a pinebranch, / Pinioned in plastic milkjugs with the bottoms cut out / So they couldn’t flap as the blood drained into the bucket.
ref: 2010, Charles W. Pratt, “Homesteader in the Orchard”, in From the Box Marked Some Are Missing (The Hobblebush Granite State Poetry Series; I), Brookline, N.H.: Hobblebush Books, →ISBN, page 42:
text: “Ach! You’re not fooling anybody, Ronald. If she wasn’t about as pretty as a kitten you wouldn’t be standing anywhere near her but you’re just like the rest of them there protestors, falling for her pretty face and that figure she likes to show off with a waist about this size and those nice, firm little milkjugs of hers. The only difference between you and the rest of them is you’re old enough to be all of their grandfathers, including the teacher.” “Milkjugs! My God, man, did you really say that? Milkjugs! Oh, you’re one romantic human being, aren’t you?[…]”
ref: 2012, Frank Macdonald, A Possible Madness, Sydney, N.S.: Cape Breton University Press, →ISBN, page 420:
glosses: Alternative form of milk jug.