milch
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 12
- Words With Friends
- 14
- Letters
- 5
Definition of milch
3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
adj
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(dated, not-comparable)Used to produce milk; dairy.
“so many cattle […] old cows and young cows; meek-eyed milch cows and fierce […] Texas steers.”
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adj
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(dated, not-comparable)Used to produce milk; dairy.
“so many cattle […] old cows and young cows; meek-eyed milch cows and fierce […] Texas steers.”
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(dated, not-comparable)Currently producing milk for its offspring.
“She wildly breaketh from their strict embrace / Like a milch doe, whose swelling dugs do ache / Hasting to feed her fawn, hid in some break.”
“you must house your Milch-cows”
- (not-comparable, obsolete)Tender; pitiful; weeping.
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Etymology
From Middle English milche, melche, from Old English *melċe, *milċe (attested in þrimilċe, þrimilċemōnaþ), from Proto-Germanic *milkijaz, *melkijaz from Proto-Germanic *melkaz (“milky, milk-giving”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂melǵ- (“to wipe, wipe off,…
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From Middle English milche, melche, from Old English *melċe, *milċe (attested in þrimilċe, þrimilċemōnaþ), from Proto-Germanic *milkijaz, *melkijaz from Proto-Germanic *melkaz (“milky, milk-giving”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂melǵ- (“to wipe, wipe off, milk”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian meelk (“milch”), Low German melke (“milch”), German melk (“milk-giving, milch”), Alemannic German mëlch (“milch, milkable”), Icelandic milkur, mjólkur (“milk-giving”). More at milk. Compare milchig.
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