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milkish en · ADJ

Etymology

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

Meanings

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:

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