milk

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   take milk from female mammals

   Cows need to be milked every morning

2. 2
   verb

   add milk to

   milk the tea

3. 3
   verb

   exploit as much as possible

   I am milking this for all it's worth

4. 4
   noun

   A white liquid produced by the mammary glands of female mammals to nourish their young. From certain animals, especially cows, it is also called dairy milk and is a common food for humans as a beverage or used to produce various dairy products such as butter, cheese, and yogurt.

   Skyr is a product made of curdled milk.

5. 5
   noun

   A white (or whitish) liquid obtained from a vegetable source such as almonds, coconuts, oats, rice, or soy beans.

   Where it does fall down, however, is its nutritional value. While oats are largely a healthy grain to include in your diet, the milk is highly diluted with water, giving it little nutritional value.

6. 6
   noun

   An individual serving of milk.

   Table three ordered three milks.

7. 7
   noun

   An individual portion of milk, such as found in a creamer, for tea and coffee.

   I take my tea with two milks and two sugars.

8. 8
   verb

   To express milk from (a mammal, especially a cow).

   The farmer milked his cows.

Etymology

From Middle English milk, mylk, melk, mulc, from Old English meolc, meoluc (“milk”), from Proto-West Germanic *meluk (“milk”), from Proto-Germanic *meluks (“milk”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂melǵ- (“milk, to milk”). Cognates Cognate with West Frisian molke (“milk”), Dutch melk (“milk”), Dutch Low Saxon melk (“milk”), German Milch (“milk”), German Low German Melk (“milk”), Yiddish מילך (milkh, “milk”), Danish mælk (“milk”), Faroese and Icelandic mjólk (“milk”), Norn *mjølk (“milk”), Norwegian Bokmål melk, mjølk (“milk”), Norwegian Nynorsk mjølk (“milk”), Swedish mjölk (“milk”), Gothic 𐌼𐌹𐌻𐌿𐌺𐍃…