Meanings
comparative more milkish · superlative most milkish
- Resembling the colour or consistency of milk; milky
The bus, at the end of its journey, could hardly wedge into the space between the milk truck, of which the tin cans were leaking a milkish fluid, and the hearse, huge and carapaced, an inflated black bug with tissue-colored eyes.
1965, Marguerite Young, Miss MacIntosh, My Darling, volume 2, page 943
Origin
- Middle Englishmylkisch
- Middle Englishmylkisch
- Englishmilkish
Inherited from Middle English mylkisch. By surface analysis, milk + -ish.
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