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milk drinker

noun

Etymology

From Ancient Greek γαλακτοπότης (galaktopótēs, “a milk drinker”), a derogatory term which the Greeks used in reference to the barbarians.

  1. derived from γαλακτοπότης

Definitions

  1. Someone who lacks experience or courage.

    • What's a milk drinker like you doing out here? Go home to your mother.
    • That milk drinker over there with the electrical apparatus for spies, he claims to be a bishop, but I'm not afraid of fellows like that.
    • 'What a milk drinker,' said Michael, which was his worst insult at the time.

  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically

    Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see milk, drinker.

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