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Milky

//ˈmɪlki// adj, slang

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Resembling milk in color, consistency, smell, etc.; consisting of milk.

    "his sword, Which was declining on the milky head Of reverend Priam, seem'd i' the air to stick:"

  2. 2
    Of the black in an image, appearing as dark gray rather than black. informal
  3. 3
    Containing (an especially large amount of) milk.

    "milky tea; milky cocoa"

  4. 4
    Containing a whitish liquid, juicy.

    "1800, Robert Bloomfield, The Farmer’s Boy, London: Vernor & Hood et al., “Summer,” p. 30, Shot up from broad rank blades that droop below, The nodding WHEAT-EAR forms a graceful bow, With milky kernels starting full, weigh’d down, Ere yet the sun hath ting’d its head with brown;"

  5. 5
    Cowardly. colloquial

    "Has friendship such a faint and milky heart?"

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  1. 6
    Immature, childish. colloquial

    "Gone is your fighting Youth, whom you have bred From milkie Childhood to the years of bloud!"

  2. 7
    Producing milk, lactating. obsolete

    "As great a noyse, as when in Cymbrian plaine An heard of Bulles, whom kindly rage doth sting, Doe for the milky mothers want complaine, And fill the fieldes with troublous bellowing,"

Adjective
  1. 1
    resembling milk in color; not clear wordnet

Etymology

From Middle English mylky, melky, equivalent to milk + -y. Cognate with Saterland Frisian moalkig (“milky”), West Frisian molkich (“milky”), Dutch melkig (“milky”), German Low German melkig (“milky”), German milchig (“milky”), Danish mælkig (“milky”), Swedish mjölkig (“milky”), Icelandic mjólkugur (“milky”). Doublet of milchig.

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