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milk-drunk

milk-drunk adjective: of a baby, drowsy and apparently content after consuming a large amount of milk.

Adjective

milk-drunk

  1. (informal) Of 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
    • 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

Examples of milk-drunk in a sentence

  • 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:

Questions about milk-drunk

What does milk-drunk mean?
Milk-drunk means of a baby, drowsy and apparently content after consuming a large amount of milk.
How do you use milk-drunk in a sentence?
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?
What part of speech is milk-drunk?
Milk-drunk is an adjective.

Words near milk-drunk in the dictionary

  1. milk-brothers
  2. milk-cap
  3. milk-caps
  4. milk-chocolatey
  5. milk-chocolaty
  6. milk-drunk
  7. milk-food
  8. milk-foods
  9. milk-house
  10. milk-houses
  11. milk-livered

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