milk drinker

noun

Someone who lacks experience or courage.

OriginAncient Greek γαλακτοπότης →
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Meanings

nounmilk drinker (plural milk drinkers)

plural milk drinkers

  1. derogatoryidiomaticslangSomeone who lacks experience or courage.

    What's a milk drinker like you doing out here? Go home to your mother.

    2011 November 11, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Bethesda Softworks
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    That milk drinker over there with the electrical apparatus for spies, he claims to be a bishop, but I'm not afraid of fellows like that.

    2022, Halldór Laxness, Under the Glacier, Random House, →ISBN

    'What a milk drinker,' said Michael, which was his worst insult at the time.

    2023, Anna Smaill, Bird Life: a novel, Scribe Publications, →ISBN
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see milk, drinker.

Origin

  1. Ancient Greekγαλακτοπότης“a milk drinker”
  2. Englishmilk drinker

From Ancient Greek γαλακτοπότης (galaktopótēs, “a milk drinker”), a derogatory term which the Greeks used in reference to the barbarians.

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APA

milk drinker. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/milk%20drinker

MLA

“milk drinker.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/milk%20drinker. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “milk drinker,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/milk%20drinker.

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