milky

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Resembling milk in color, consistency, smell, etc.

   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:
   • The Pails high-foaming with a milky Flood,
   • 1731, John Arbuthnot, An Essay concerning the Nature of Aliments, London: J. Tonson, Chapter 3, Prop. 3, p. 51, […] some Plants upon breaking their Vessels yield a milky Juice; others a Yellow of peculiar Tastes and Qualities.
2. 2

   Of the black in an image, appearing as dark gray rather than black.

3. 3

   Containing (an especially large amount of) milk.

   • milky tea; milky cocoa
   • Mrs. Anthony, their daily housekeeper, brought in the milky coffee and placed it on the breakfast table.
   • […] we sat down […] to the old crack crack crack of eggs and the crackle crunch crunch of this black toast, very milky chai standing by in bolshy great morning mugs.
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   1. 4

      Containing a whitish liquid, juicy.

      • […] the servile Eries were staggering out of the corn fields laden with ripe ears; and the famished soldiers were shouting and cursing at them and tearing the corn from their arms to gnaw the raw and milky grains.
   2. 5

      Cowardly.

      • Has friendship such a faint and milky heart?
      • The boycott of Florida orange juice, while coming from genuine feelings, is basically a milky-liberal response to an issue that needs united, vocal, public action.
   3. 6

      Immature, childish.

      • Gone is your fighting Youth, whom you have bred From milkie Childhood to the years of bloud!
      • There were the everlasting hills around, even as they had grown for countless ages, beneath the still depths of the primeval chalk ocean, in the milky youth of this great English land.
      • “I am no milky, modest, obedient youth, Constance. […]”
   4. 7

      Producing milk, lactating.

      • 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,
      • […] ye heare the Lamb by many a bleat Woo’d to come suck the milkie Teat:

The neighborhood

• synonymlacteous
• synonymnithing
• synonymcowardly
• synonympuerile
• synonymchildish