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milkish

milkish adjective: resembling the colour or consistency of milk; milky.

Adjective

milkish (comparative more milkish, superlative most milkish)

  1. Resembling the colour or consistency of milk; milky
    • The bus, at the end of its journey, could hardly wedge into the space between the milk truck, of which the tin cans were leaking a milkish fluid, and the hearse, huge and carapaced, an inflated black bug with tissue-colored eyes.1965, Marguerite Young, Miss MacIntosh, My Darling, volume 2, page 943

Forms of milkish

comparativemore milkish
superlativemost milkish

Origin of milkish

From Middle English milkish, milkisshe, melkich, equivalent to milk + -ish.

Questions about milkish

What does milkish mean?
Milkish means resembling the colour or consistency of milk; milky.
What part of speech is milkish?
Milkish is an adjective.

Words near milkish in the dictionary

  1. milking parlours
  2. milking table
  3. milking tables
  4. milking the clock
  5. milkings
  6. milkish
  7. milkjug
  8. milkjugs
  9. milkladies
  10. milklady
  11. milkless

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