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milky

/ˈmɪlki/ US, UK

Rhymes with -ɪlki

Where it comes from

From Middle English mylky, melky; equivalent to milk + -y.

Compare with Saterland Frisian moalkig (“milky”), West Frisian molkich (“milky”), Dutch melkig (“milky”), German Low German melkig (“milky”), German milchig (“milky”), Danish mælkig (“milky”), Swedish mjölkig (“milky”), Icelandic mjólkugur (“milky”). Doublet of milchig.

adjective milkier · milkiest

Resembling milk in color, consistency, smell, etc.; consisting of milk. his sword, / Which was declining on the milky head / Of reverend Priam, seem'd i' the air to stick: […]
Similar: lacteous
informal Of the black in an image, appearing as dark gray rather than black.
of a drink Containing (an especially large amount of) milk. milky cocoa milky tea
Similar: lactiferous
of grains Containing a whitish liquid, juicy. 1800, Robert Bloomfield, The Farmer’s Boy, London: Vernor & Hood et al., “Summer,” p. 30, Shot up from broad rank blades that droop below, / The nodding WHEAT-EAR forms a graceful bow, / With milky kernels starting full, weigh’d down, / Ere yet the sun hath ting’d its head with brown; […]
informal Cowardly. Has friendship such a faint and milky heart?
Similar: fearful
informal Immature, childish. Gone is your fighting Youth, whom you have bred / From milkie Childhood to the years of bloud!
Similar: infantile
obsolete Producing milk, lactating. As great a noyse, as when in Cymbrian plaine / An heard of Bulles, whom kindly rage doth sting, / Doe for the milky mothers want complaine, / And fill the fieldes with troublous bellowing,
Similar: lactifluous, nursing, with milk

Similar: nithing, puerile

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: milklike, milk, whitish, opaque, lacteous, creamy, sap, breast, lactic, dairy, opalescent, pearly, ivory, alabaster, chalky, cloudy

adjective

Similar: nithing, puerile

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adj resembling milk in color or consistency

Español	lechoso
中文	乳白色 rǔbáisè
हिन्दी	दुधिया dudhiyā
Português	leitoso
Français	laiteux
Deutsch	milchig
Italiano	latteo, lattiginoso
Ελληνικά	γαλακτώδης galaktódis
Română	lăptos
Русский	моло́чный molóčnyj, мле́чный mléčnyj

adj containing a whitish liquid, juicy

Español	lechoso, lactario, lechal

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@misc{milky_2026,
  title = {milky},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/milky},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}