US /mɪltʃ/ UK /mɪltʃ/
adj Freq #76213

Meanings

  1. 1
    adj

    of a cow or other female animal: producing milk, especially when kept for dairy use

    The farmer separated the milch cows from the young cattle before dawn.

Thesaurus

Synonyms
1 adj · of a cow or other female... milk-givingdairylactating
Opposites
dry
Word family
Forms milch-cows
Derived forms milch-cowmilchy
Related forms milkdairylactation

Etymology

From Middle English milche, from an Old English adjective related to melcan ("to milk"), ultimately from the same Germanic family as milk. The word survives chiefly in the fixed agricultural expression milch cow.

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