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Webster 1913 Edition

Milky

Milk′y

,
Adj.
1.
Consisting of, or containing, milk.
Pails high foaming with a
milky
flood.
Pope.
2.
Like, or somewhat like, milk; whitish and turbid;
as, the water is
milky
. “
Milky
juice.”
Arbuthnot.
3.
Yielding milk.
“Milky mothers.”
Roscommon.
4.
Mild; tame; spiritless.
Has friendship such a faint and
milky
heart?
Shakespeare
Milky Way
.
(Astron.)
See
Galaxy
, 1.

Webster 1828 Edition

Milky

MILK'Y

,
Adj.
Made of milk.
1.
Resembling milk; as milky sap or juice.
2.
Yielding milk; as milky mothers.
3.
Soft; mild; gentle; timorous; as a milky heart.

Definition 2024

milky

milky

English

Adjective

milky ‎(comparative milkier, superlative milkiest)

  1. Resembling milk in color or consistency.
    • Alexander Pope
      pails high foaming with a milky flood
    • Arbuthnot
      milky juice
  2. (color science, informal) Of the black in an image, appearing as dark gray rather than black.
  3. (colloquial) Cowardly.
    • Shakespeare
      Has friendship such a faint and milky heart?
  4. (obsolete) Yielding milk.
    • Roscommon
      milky mothers

Translations

Etymology

milk +‎ -y

Pronunciation

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