Meanings
comparative more milk-chocolaty · superlative most milk-chocolaty · alternative milk chocolatey · alternative milk-chocolatey · alternative milk chocolaty
- Resembling or characteristic of milk chocolate.
[T]he pigeons kept coming too. I liked the pale milk-chocolaty ones with the dark iridescent rippling ruffs.
1943, Vincent McHugh, “Wednesday: 18th February”, in I Am Thinking of My Darling: An Adventure Story, 3rd printing, New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, section 1, page 242 more examples
Sometimes I ate so much chocolate that I had to eat a Payday or two in between, just to counteract the sweet milk-chocolaty taste with a somewhat salty food.
2003, Rosemary Black, “Halloween”, in The Kids’ Holiday Baking Book: 150 Favorite Dessert Recipes from Around the World, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Griffin, →ISBN, page 178August’s milk-chocolaty hat is an imported Italian fedora, jammed down a bit on his head so the crosswinds won’t peel it away.
2017, Eric E. Wallace, “Jumping to Conclusions”, in Emperor’s Reach: A Novel of San Francisco, St. Petersburg, Fla.: BookLocker.com, Inc., page 123
Origin
From milk chocolat(e) + -y. By surface analysis, milk + chocolat(e) + -y.
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