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milk-and-watery

milk-and-watery adjective: weak, insipid; lacking strength and vigour.

Adjective

milk-and-watery (comparative more milk-and-watery, superlative most milk-and-watery)

  1. Weak, insipid; lacking strength and vigour.

Forms of milk-and-watery

comparativemore milk-and-watery
superlativemost milk-and-watery

Origin of milk-and-watery

From milk-and-water + -y.

Questions about milk-and-watery

What does milk-and-watery mean?
Milk-and-watery means weak, insipid; lacking strength and vigour.
What part of speech is milk-and-watery?
Milk-and-watery is an adjective.

Words near milk-and-watery in the dictionary

  1. milk vouchers
  2. milk wool
  3. milk-alkali syndrome
  4. milk-and-water
  5. milk-and-wateriness
  6. milk-and-watery
  7. milk-bar cowboy
  8. milk-bar cowboys
  9. milk-brother
  10. milk-brothers
  11. milk-cap

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