Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Giving milk.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Giving milk; furnishing milk: as, a milch cow: now applied only to domestic animals, and chiefly to cows.
- Milky: said of plants.
- Yielding liquid; distilling drops (namely, tears).
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Giving milk; -- now applied only to beasts.
- adjective obsolete Tender; pitiful; weeping.
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- adjective dated Giving
milk - adjective obsolete Tender; pitiful; weeping.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective giving milk; bred or suitable primarily for milk production
Etymologies
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Examples
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She will not be known as a milch cow long; she will be a low grade of corned beef, a couple of flank steaks and a few pairs of three-dollar shoes.
Goat-Feathers Ellis Parker Butler 1903
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We tried their traditional aelpi milch, which is milk with liquor.
TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010
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The NNPC has had the reputation in the past as a kind of milch cow, with millions taken from its reserves due to alleged political interference, embezzlement and administrative incompetence.
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Labour, however, has always had a down, publicly at any rate, on wealth and wealth creation, seeing wealth and the wealthy merely as a milch cow to enable money be transferred over to the non-productive element of society who are thus made Labour's clients and core vote.
Archive 2009-07-12 2009
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North Korea last week confirmed an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease, with its state-run news agency saying that "more than 10,000 heads of draught oxen, milch cows and pigs have so far been infected with the diseases and thousands of them died."
Starving N. Korea begs for food, but U.S. has concerns about resuming aid 2011
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America — at this last she smiled affectionately with memory of the great controversy he had waged for the beef cow and the milch cow as against the dual purpose cow.
CHAPTER XXVIII 2010
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Most people didn't recognize the quote, but Simpson was probably attempting to channel H.L. Mencken's line about government itself, which Mencken called "a milch-cow with 125 million teats" (the population of the United States at the time).
Richard (RJ) Eskow: Annoying Alan Simpson: The 310,000,001st Reason to Vote RJ 2010
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Labour, however, has always had a down, publicly at any rate, on wealth and wealth creation, seeing wealth and the wealthy merely as a milch cow to enable money be transferred over to the non-productive element of society who are thus made Labour's clients and core vote.
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He stole from the Federal Government, at a prodigal increase of salary, its star specialist in livestock breeding, and by similar misconduct he robbed the University of Nebraska of its greatest milch cow professor, and broke the heart of the Dean of the College of Agriculture of the University of California by appropriating Professor Nirdenhammer, the wizard of farm management.
CHAPTER VI 2010
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North Korea last week confirmed an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease, with its state-run news agency saying that "more than 10,000 heads of draught oxen, milch cows and pigs have so far been infected with the diseases and thousands of them died."
Starving N. Korea begs for food, but U.S. has concerns about resuming aid 2011
fbharjo commented on the word milch
from the indo-european root melg- see galenious
July 25, 2010
ruzuzu commented on the word milch
What an interesting etymology!
January 3, 2013