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milk sister

milk sister noun: a female milk sibling.

Noun

milk sister (plural milk sisters)

  1. A female milk sibling.
    • In this shop, I always used to play hide-and-seek with Marie, my wet nurse's daughter, who in fact is my milk sister, […]2007, Jenny Erpenbeck, The Book of Words (trans. Susan Bernofsky), New Directions (2007; original German novel published 2004), page 46

Forms of milk sister

pluralmilk sisters
alternative formmilk-sister

Questions about milk sister

What does milk sister mean?
Milk sister means a female milk sibling.
What part of speech is milk sister?
Milk sister is a noun.
What is the plural of milk sister?
The plural of milk sister is milk sisters.

Words near milk sister in the dictionary

  1. milk shake
  2. milk shakes
  3. milk sibling
  4. milk siblings
  5. milk sickness
  6. milk sister
  7. milk sisters
  8. milk skin
  9. milk snail
  10. milk snake
  11. milk snakes

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