Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Milk produced by cows fed on swill, especially on slops from distilleries.
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Examples
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It was, therefore, denied by the veterinary surgeons in the Eastern States, that the disease in New Jersey was the true European pleuro-pneumonia, but it was called by them the swill-milk disease of New York City, and it was assigned an origin in the distillery cow-houses in Brooklyn and Williamsburg.
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Most residents of New York can remember the “swill-milk” or “stump-tail milk” exposures and prosecutions of that summer, and of the reformation brought about thereby in the Board of Health.
The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him Ford, Paul L 1894
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The press began, too, a crusade against the swill-milk dealers, and the men who had allowed all this to be possible.
The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him Ford, Paul L 1894
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When she found it did not and that it was not mentioned in the press and Health Board crusade against the other “swill-milk” dealers, she became convinced that there was some definite attempt to rob Peter of his due fame.
The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him Ford, Paul L 1894
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Most residents of New York can remember the "swill-milk" or "stump-tail milk" exposures and prosecutions of that summer, and of the reformation brought about thereby in the Board of Health.
The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him Paul Leicester Ford 1883
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Board crusade against the other "swill-milk" dealers, she became convinced that there was some definite attempt to rob Peter of his due fame.
The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him Paul Leicester Ford 1883
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The press began, too, a crusade against the swill-milk dealers, and the men who had allowed all this to be possible.
The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him Paul Leicester Ford 1883
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"Do you like your tea with swill-milk, or without?"
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But the worst adulteration of milk is to adulterate the old cow herself; as is done in the swill-milk establishments which received such an exposure a few years ago in a city paper.
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A series of careful experiments to develop the milk-humbug was made by a competent physician in Boston within a few years, but he found the milk there (aside from swill-milk) adulterated with nothing worse than water, salt, and burnt sugar.
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