Milkish

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 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

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"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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