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milk-drunk en · ADJ

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  1. (informal) Of a baby, drowsy and apparently content after consuming a large amount of milk.
    • Will I never again watch the pink moon of a nursing cheek, the eyelids sagging under the dead weight of lashes, the dopey, drooling grin of a milk-drunk baby? 2009, Dana Sullivan, Unbuttoned: Women Open Up About the Pleasures, Pains, and Politics of Breastfeeding, Harvard Common Press:
    • Sophie had one quick feed for the road and slipped into milk-drunk slumber. 2001, Rozella Floranz Kennedy, BecomingMom.com, Writer's Showcase, page 405:
    • But then she stretched out one little baby leg in its purple stretch-terry jumper, and then the other, and gazed into her baby's rolling, brown, milk-drunk face with delight. 2002, Naomi Wolf, Misconceptions: Truth, Lies and the Unexpected on the Journey to Motherhood, Random House, page 111:
    • Inside the house, I sit on the couch with a milk-drunk Arie and check my phone. 2023, Magdalena McGuire, Born for You, Hardie Grant Publishing: