milky

Definition

Resembling milk in color, consistency, smell, etc.; consisting of milk.

Etymology

From Middle English mylky, melky, equivalent to milk + -y. Cognate with Saterland Frisian moalkig (“milky”), West Frisian molkich (“milky”), Dutch melkig (“milky”), German Low German melkig (“milky”), German milchig (“milky”), Danish mælkig (“milky”), Swedish mjölkig (“milky”), Icelandic mjólkugur (“milky”). Doublet of milchig.

Example Sentences

• "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."