milk-drunk

adjective

Of a baby, drowsy and apparently content after consuming a large amount of milk.

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Meanings

adjective
  1. informalOf a baby, drowsy and apparently content after consuming a large amount of milk.

    Sophie had one quick feed for the road and slipped into milk-drunk slumber.

    2001, Rozella Floranz Kennedy, BecomingMom.com, Writer's Showcase, page 405
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    But then she stretched out one little baby leg in its purple stretch-terry jumper, and then the other, and gazed into her baby's rolling, brown, milk-drunk face with delight.

    2002, Naomi Wolf, Misconceptions: Truth, Lies and the Unexpected on the Journey to Motherhood, Random House, page 111

    Will I never again watch the pink moon of a nursing cheek, the eyelids sagging under the dead weight of lashes, the dopey, drooling grin of a milk-drunk baby?

    2009, Dana Sullivan, Unbuttoned: Women Open Up About the Pleasures, Pains, and Politics of Breastfeeding, Harvard Common Press

    Inside the house, I sit on the couch with a milk-drunk Arie and check my phone.

    2023, Magdalena McGuire, Born for You, Hardie Grant Publishing
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APA

milk-drunk. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/milk-drunk

MLA

“milk-drunk.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/milk-drunk. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “milk-drunk,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/milk-drunk.

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