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unmilked en · ADJ

Etymology

From un- + milked.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Not milked.
    • And part of one cow's udder remained unmilked when the robot retracted. 1990 July 25, “BUSINESS TECHNOLOGY; A Mechanical Milkmaid: Will Cows Be Content?”, in The New York Times:
    • Not Judy Garland, I can hear you moaning, the show business legend whose sorry life has not exactly gone unmilked for cheap pathos elsewhere. 2010 November 30, Matt Wolf, “It's Judy's World and Welcome to It”, in The New York Times:
    • Rising early for the unexpected journey, the farmer left his cows unmilked.
    • I heard voices calling to me, just discernible above the engine noise; I stopped, and switched off. There were no voices, nothing, but far, far away the plaint of an unmilked cow. 1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 198: