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milk

noun
/mɪlk//mɛlk/CA

Etymology

From Middle English milk, mylk, melk, mulc, from Old English meolc, meoluc (“milk”), from Proto-West Germanic *meluk (“milk”), from Proto-Germanic *meluks (“milk”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂melǵ- (“milk, to milk”). Cognates Cognate with West Frisian molke (“milk”), Dutch melk (“milk”), Dutch Low Saxon melk (“milk”), German Milch (“milk”), German Low German Melk (“milk”), Yiddish מילך (milkh, “milk”), Danish mælk (“milk”), Faroese and Icelandic mjólk (“milk”), Norn *mjølk (“milk”), Norwegian Bokmål melk, mjølk (“milk”), Norwegian Nynorsk mjølk (“milk”), Swedish mjölk (“milk”), Gothic 𐌼𐌹𐌻𐌿𐌺𐍃 (miluks, “milk”), Greek αμέλγω (amélgo, “to milk”), Albanian mjel (“to milk”), Latvian malks, Lithuanian malkas, Belarusian малако́ (malakó, “milk”), Bulgarian мля́ко (mljáko, “milk”), Czech mléko, Macedonian мле́ко (mléko, “milk”), Polish mleko (“milk”), Russian and Ukrainian молоко́ (molokó, “milk”), Serbo-Croatian mlijéko (“milk”), Slovak mlieko (“milk”), Slovene mlẹ́ko (“milk”), Welsh blith, Tocharian A malke.

  1. derived from *h₂melǵ-✻
  2. inherited from *meluks✻
  3. inherited from *meluk✻
  4. inherited from meolc
  5. inherited from milk

Definitions

  1. A white liquid produced by the mammary glands of female mammals to nourish their young.…

    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.

    • Skyr is a product made of curdled milk.
    • In the West it's' fairly normal to drink milk in various forms into adulthood.

  2. A white (or whitish) liquid obtained from a vegetable source such as almonds, coconuts,…

    A white (or whitish) liquid obtained from a vegetable source such as almonds, coconuts, oats, rice, or soy beans.

    • 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.
    • For environmentally minded consumers, the news is hard to swallow: almond milk is not healthy for the planet and the popular milk substitute is especially hard on bees.

  3. An individual serving of milk.

    • Table three ordered three milks.
  4. ›+ 11 more definitions

    1. An individual portion of milk, such as found in a creamer, for tea and coffee.

      • I take my tea with two milks and two sugars.
      • I take my tea with two milk and two sugar.
      • She just sat there drinking cup after cup of strong coffee, with two milks and two sugars.

    2. The ripe, undischarged spat of an oyster.

    3. Semen.

    4. To express milk from (a mammal, especially a cow).

      • The farmer milked his cows.
      • I haue giuen Sucke, and know / How tender 'tis to loue the Babe that milkes me[…]

    5. To draw (milk) from the breasts or udder.

      • to milk wholesome milk from healthy cows

    6. To secrete (milk) from the breasts or udder.

      • The black cow milking white milk, black hen on the nest laying white eggs.

    7. To express a liquid from a creature.

      • The Australian government has a team that regularly milks various snakes for venom to use creating serums and antivenoms.
      • He captures animals for zoos around the world... and milks cobra snakes for their venom.

    8. To make excessive use of (a particular point in speech or writing, a source of funds,…

      To make excessive use of (a particular point in speech or writing, a source of funds, etc.); to exploit; to take advantage of (something).

      • When the audience began laughing, the comedian milked the joke for more laughs.
      • July 21, 1877, "The Block in the Courts" in The Spectator They [the lawyers] milk an unfortunate estate as regularly as a dairyman does his stock.

    9. To give off small gas bubbles during the final part of the charging operation.

    10. To masturbate a male to ejaculation, especially for the amusement or satisfaction of the…

      To masturbate a male to ejaculation, especially for the amusement or satisfaction of the masturbator rather than the person masturbated.

      • Controlled milking can actually establish and consolidate a mistress’s dominance over her sub rather than diminish it.

    11. A surname.

      • American gay rights activist Harvey Milk was known for keeping his face and name on the front pages of San Francisco’s newspapers.

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Derived

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Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at milk. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at milk. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at milk

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA