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Milch

//mɪlt͡ʃ// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Used to produce milk; dairy. dated, not-comparable

    "so many cattle […] old cows and young cows; meek-eyed milch cows and fierce […] Texas steers."

  2. 2
    Currently producing milk for its offspring. dated, not-comparable

    "She wildly breaketh from their strict embrace / Like a milch doe, whose swelling dugs do ache / Hasting to feed her fawn, hid in some break."

  3. 3
    Tender; pitiful; weeping. not-comparable, obsolete
Adjective
  1. 1
    giving milk; bred or suitable primarily for milk production wordnet

Etymology

From Middle English milche, melche, from Old English *melċe, *milċe (attested in þrimilċe, þrimelċes mōnaþ), from Proto-Germanic *milkijaz, *melkijaz from Proto-Germanic *melkaz (“milky, milk-giving”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂melǵ- (“to wipe, wipe off, milk”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian meelk (“milch”), Low German melke (“milch”), German melk (“milk-giving, milch”), Alemannic German mëlch (“milch, milkable”), Icelandic milkur, mjólkur (“milk-giving”). More at milk. Compare milchig.

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