lactifluous

comparative more lactifluous · superlative most lactifluous

1. flowing with milk

   The bare teats of the human females bored out from this two-dimensional undergrowth like the barrels of lactifluous guns.

   1997, Will Self, Great Apes, A&C Black, published 2011, page 385

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   Me. But how does that appear? Og. Oh, the nun at Constantinople that gave it said so. Me. It may be she had it of St. Bernard. Og. I believe she had. Me. He, when he was very old, had the happiness to taste milk from the same nipple which the child Jesus sucked, whence I wonder he was not rather called Lactifluous than Mellifluous.

   1518, Desiderius Erasmus, “The Religious Pilgrimage”, in Colloquies

   But the pronouncing aright of California names is only a part of the duty. There needs to be a present crusade for the preservation of our historical names from oblivion.¶ It is not so much the lactifluous tenderfoot who is our danger in this case, but the wax-witted Philistines of the Post Office Department and the railroads; two Boeotian despots that have a great deal to do with place names and who have committed some of the most cold-blooded murders known to etymology.

   1904 June, Charles F[letcher] Lummis, “The Lion's Den”, in Out West, volume 20, number 6, page 568

   On March 1 a bleary-eyed, drop-horned and also knock-kneed 9-year-old Friesian cow named Bridge Birch (above) of Moortown Farm, Hampshire, England, concluded a lactifluous year by producing her 45,081st pound of milk.

   1948 March 22, “Beer-drinking cow sets world record”, in Life, volume 24, number 12, page 59

   Synonyms: milky, kiddish, nursing, with milk, childly, lactating