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milk drinker

milk drinker noun: someone who lacks experience or courage.

Noun

milk drinker (plural milk drinkers)

  1. (derogatory, idiomatic, slang) Someone who lacks experience or courage.
    • What's a milk drinker like you doing out here? Go home to your mother.2011 November 11, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Bethesda Softworks
    • That milk drinker over there with the electrical apparatus for spies, he claims to be a bishop, but I'm not afraid of fellows like that.2022, Halldór Laxness, Under the Glacier, Random House, →ISBN
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see milk, drinker.

Forms of milk drinker

pluralmilk drinkers

Origin of milk drinker

From Ancient Greek γαλακτοπότης (galaktopótēs, “a milk drinker”), a derogatory term which the Greeks used in reference to the barbarians.

Questions about milk drinker

What does milk drinker mean?
Milk drinker means someone who lacks experience or courage.
What part of speech is milk drinker?
Milk drinker is a noun.
What is the plural of milk drinker?
The plural of milk drinker is milk drinkers.

Words near milk drinker in the dictionary

  1. milk crusts
  2. Milk Day
  3. milk delivery door
  4. milk dentition
  5. milk door
  6. milk drinker
  7. milk drinkers
  8. milk duct
  9. milk ducts
  10. milk factories
  11. milk factory

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