Meanings
- not comparablerareConsuming milk.
Of course, we may not have the same taste in teas, as I am one of the few (the proud, the galactophagous) that adds milk to tea.
1997 January 12, Craig Helfgott, “Re: Ok, time to stand up”, in alt.callahans (Usenet)2 more examples
The oldest explicit information concerning a Nomado-Slavic State on the lower Danube is to be found in Pseudo-Caesarius of the Nazianzus of the sixth – probably even the fourth – century A.D., viz. that of the galactophagous Phisonitae or Danubians […] and the vegetarian Slavs.
1913, John Bagnell Bury, editor, The Cambridge Medieval History, page 432I am reading Herodotus, who describes in detail and with great fidelity these same galactophagous Scythians among whom I am living.
1918, George Rapall Noyes, quoting Leo Tolstoy, Tolstoy, letter to Fet, page 141
Origin
From γαλακτοφάγος (galaktophágos, “milk-fed”).
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