milk
Meanings
Plural: milks
Noun
- a white nutritious liquid secreted by mammals and used as food by human beings
- produced by mammary glands of female mammals for feeding their young
- a river that rises in the Rockies in northwestern Montana and flows eastward to become a tributary of the Missouri River
- any of several nutritive milklike liquids
- 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.
- A white (or whitish) liquid obtained from a vegetable source such as almonds, coconuts, oats, rice, or soy beans.
- An individual serving of milk.
- An individual portion of milk, such as found in a creamer, for tea and coffee.
- The ripe, undischarged spat of an oyster.
- Semen.
Verb
- take milk from female mammals
- "Cows need to be milked every morning"
- exploit as much as possible
- "I am milking this for all it's worth"
- add milk to
- "milk the tea"
- To express milk from (a mammal, especially a cow).
- To draw (milk) from the breasts or udder.
- To secrete (milk) from the breasts or udder.
- To express a liquid from a creature.
- To make excessive use of (a particular point in speech or writing, a source of funds, etc.); to exploit; to take advantage of (something).
- To give off small gas bubbles during the final part of the charging operation.
- To masturbate a male to ejaculation, especially for the amusement or satisfaction of the masturbator rather than the person masturbated.
Origin / Etymology
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, Albanian mjel (“to milk”), Polish mleko, Russian молоко́ (molokó), Welsh blith, Tocharian A malke, Lithuanian malkas, Latvian malks, and possibly Ancient Greek μέλκιον (mélkion).
Synonyms
cowmilk, dairy milk, m*lk, masturbate, Milk River, mylk, non-dairy milk, plant milk
Scrabble Score: 10
milk is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL wordmilk is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
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