name, noun, verb, slang ·Very common ·Middle school level
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"Skyr is a product made of curdled milk."
"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."
"Table three ordered three milks."
"I take my tea with two milks and two sugars."
"The farmer milked his cows."
"to milk wholesome milk from healthy cows"
"The black cow milking white milk, black hen on the nest laying white eggs."
"The Australian government has a team that regularly milks various snakes for venom to use creating serums and antivenoms."
"When the audience began laughing, the comedian milked the joke for more laughs."
"Controlled milking can actually establish and consolidate a mistress’s dominance over her sub rather than diminish it."
"American gay rights activist Harvey Milk was known for keeping his face and name on the front pages of San Francisco’s newspapers."
"Cheese is a solid food made from the milk of cows, goats, sheep, and other mammals."
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.
Common synonyms include: abridge, abuse, alabaster, bed, bed down, bereave.
Cheese is a solid food made from the milk of cows, goats, sheep, and other mammals.
Pronounced /mɪlk/.
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.
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-.