milkiest

Adjective

milky (comparative milkier, superlative milkiest)

1. Resembling milk in color, consistency, smell, etc.; consisting of milk.
   • his sword, / Which was declining on the milky head / Of reverend Priam, seem'd i' the air to stick: […]c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac...

   Synonyms:

   lacteous

2. (informal) Of the black in an image, appearing as dark gray rather than black.
3. Containing (an especially large amount of) milk.
   • milky cocoa milky tea

   Synonyms:

   lactiferous

4. Containing a whitish liquid, juicy.
   • Shot up from broad rank blades that droop below, / The nodding WHEAT-EAR forms a graceful bow, / With milky kernels starting full, weigh’d down, / Ere yet the sun hath ting’d its head with brown; […]1800, Robert Bloomfield, The Farmer’s Boy, London: Vernor & Hood et al., “Summer,” p. 30
5. (informal) Cowardly.
   • Has friendship such a faint and milky heart?c. 1605–1608 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...

   Synonyms:

   fearful

6. (informal) Immature, childish.
   • Gone is your fighting Youth, whom you have bred / From milkie Childhood to the years of bloud!1651, William D’avenant [i.e., William Davenant], “The First Book. Canto the 6 = Sixth.”, in Gondibert: An Heroick Poem, London: […] [Thomas Newcomb?] for John Holden, […], →OCLC, stanza 48, page 101

   Synonyms:

   infantile

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