Milkish
adj
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Resembling the colour or consistency of milk; milky
"The bus, at the end of its journey, could hardly wedge into the space between the milk truck, of which the tin cans were leaking a milkish fluid, and the hearse, huge and carapaced, an inflated black bug with tissue-colored eyes."
Example
More examples"The bus, at the end of its journey, could hardly wedge into the space between the milk truck, of which the tin cans were leaking a milkish fluid, and the hearse, huge and carapaced, an inflated black bug with tissue-colored eyes."
Etymology
From Middle English milkish, milkisshe, melkich, equivalent to milk + -ish.
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