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milkful

milkful adjective: full of milk; abounding with food.

Adjective

milkful (comparative more milkful, superlative most milkful)

  1. (archaic, poetic) Full of milk; abounding with food.
    • milk-full vales1608, [Guillaume de Salluste] Du Bartas, translated by Josuah Sylvester, Du Bartas His Deuine Weekes and Workes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Humfrey Lownes [and are to be sold by Arthur Iohnson...
    • The earth brought forth its fruit; fishful its river-mouths; milkful the kine; heavy-headed the woods.1856, John O'Donovan, Annala Rioghachta Eireann, page 97

Forms of milkful

comparativemore milkful
superlativemost milkful

Origin of milkful

From milk + -ful.

Questions about milkful

What does milkful mean?
Milkful means full of milk; abounding with food.
What part of speech is milkful?
Milkful is an adjective.

Words near milkful in the dictionary

  1. milkfat
  2. milkfats
  3. milkfed
  4. milkfish
  5. milkfishes
  6. milkful
  7. milkglass
  8. milkhouse
  9. milkhouses
  10. milkie
  11. milkier

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