milk
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.
Noun 4 meanings
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.”
A white (or whitish) liquid obtained from a vegetable source such as almonds, coconuts, oats, rice, or soy beans.
An individual serving of milk.
“Table three ordered three milks.”
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.”
Verb 4 meanings
To express milk from (a mammal, especially a cow).
“The farmer milked his cows.”
To draw (milk) from the breasts or udder.
“to milk wholesome milk from healthy cows”
Of a dairy cow, to produce milk.
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.”
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”).
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MILK at a glance
MILK has 4 letters and scores 10 points in Scrabble (M 3 + I 1 + L 1 + K 5) and 12 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #2,169 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with milk
All rhymes- SILK8
- BUTTERMILK18
- BILK10
- SOYMILK16
- FILK11
- HINDMILK18
- FOREMILK17
- CORNSILK14
- CHURNMILK20
- OVERMILK17
- THILK12
- WHILK15
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