milch

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
12
Words With Friends
14
Letters
5
Pronunciation
/mɪlt͡ʃ/

Definition of milch

3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (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

  1. (dated, not-comparable)Used to produce milk; dairy.
    “so many cattle […] old cows and young cows; meek-eyed milch cows and fierce […] Texas steers.”
  2. (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”
  3. (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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