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milk punch en · NOUN
Meanings
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(uncountable, usually) A hot Irish drink, scáiltín, made from equal amounts of hot whiskey and milk.
He listened, and with respect too, to Mr. Foker’s accounts of what the men did at the University of which Mr. F. was an ornament, and encountered a long series of stories about boat-racing, bumping, College grass-plats, and milk-punch—and began to wish to go up himself to College to a place where there were such manly pleasures and enjoyments.
1946-50, William Makepeace Thackeray, Pendennis, ch 3
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(uncountable, usually) A cold beverage of milk, bourbon, sugar, and vanilla extract, common in New Orleans.
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