milkful

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adjective

Full of milk; abounding with food.

Scrabble 16

Meanings

adjectivemilkful (comparative more milkful, superlative most milkful)

comparative more milkful · superlative most milkful

  1. archaicpoeticFull of milk; abounding with food.

    milk-full vales

    1608, [Guillaume de Salluste] Du Bartas, translated by Josuah Sylvester, Du Bartas His Deuine Weekes and Workes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Humfrey Lownes [and are to be sold by Arthur Iohnson […]], published 1611, →OCLC
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    The earth brought forth its fruit; fishful its river-mouths; milkful the kine; heavy-headed the woods.

    1856, John O'Donovan, Annala Rioghachta Eireann, page 97

Origin

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