milk-giving

The swapping of "teat" (the commonly-used word for an animal's milk-giving gland) for the word that refers to a woman's breast was Simpson's own alteration, probably intended to disturb the female recipient of his comment.

Richard (RJ) Eskow: Annoying Alan Simpson: The 310,000,001st Reason to Vote RJ 2010

He lay in the rubble for three hours before he was rescued. “No one can stay in the villages,” he said. “We have gone back after a few days or a week in previous bombings to take care of our milk-giving animals, but these keep going almost every day.

Human Rights Watch: Iran/Turkey: Recent Attacks on Civilians in Iraqi Kurdistan Human Rights Watch 2011

Every milk-giving creature (humans included), George pointed out, has its milk laced with growth hormones.

Christopher Platt: Caveat Elsie! 2008

Her milk-giving capacities were anemic; a wet nurse was called in.

Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

Her milk-giving capacities were anemic; a wet nurse was called in.

Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

Non-milk-drinkers, one imagines, would be less likely to work at domesticating milk-giving animals.

1491 2002

Non-milk-drinkers, one imagines, would be less likely to work at domesticating milk-giving animals.

1491 2002

To the milk-giving mother, the same food, and for a similar reason, is the most appropriate.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847 Various

It is because the English breeders of modern Short-horns altogether prefer beef-making to milk-giving properties that they have constantly fostered variation in favor of the one at the expense of the other until the milking quality in many families is nearly bred out.

The Principles of Breeding or, Glimpses at the Physiological Laws involved in the Reproduction and Improvement of Domestic Animals S. L. Goodale

There we found numbers of huge milk-giving shrubs -- that strange plant which serves in great part as food and drink for the wild hordes of green men.

The Gods of Mars 1913