Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Giving milk: a milch cow.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Giving milk; furnishing milk: as, a milch cow: now applied only to domestic animals, and chiefly to cows.
- Milky: said of plants.
- Yielding liquid; distilling drops (namely, tears).
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Giving milk; -- now applied only to beasts.
- adj. obsolete Tender; pitiful; weeping.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. giving milk; bred or suitable primarily for milk production
Etymologies
- From Middle English milche, melch, from Old English meolc, meolce ("giving milk, milch"), from Proto-Germanic *melkaz (“milky, milk-giving”), from Proto-Indo-European *mÁlg- (“to wipe, wipe off, milk”). Cognate with Low German melke ("milch"), German melk ("milk-giving, milch"), Icelandic milkur, mjólkur ("milk-giving"). More at milk. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English milche, from Old English -milce (in thrīmilce, May, month when cows can be milked thrice a day); see melg- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“She will not be known as a milch cow long; she will be a low grade of corned beef, a couple of flank steaks and a few pairs of three-dollar shoes.”
“We tried their traditional aelpi milch, which is milk with liquor.”
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“The NNPC has had the reputation in the past as a kind of milch cow, with millions taken from its reserves due to alleged political interference, embezzlement and administrative incompetence.”
“America — at this last she smiled affectionately with memory of the great controversy he had waged for the beef cow and the milch cow as against the dual purpose cow.”
“Most people didn't recognize the quote, but Simpson was probably attempting to channel H.L. Mencken's line about government itself, which Mencken called "a milch-cow with 125 million teats" (the population of the United States at the time).”
The Huffington Post: Richard (RJ) Eskow: Annoying Alan Simpson: The 310,000,001st Reason to Vote
“He stole from the Federal Government, at a prodigal increase of salary, its star specialist in livestock breeding, and by similar misconduct he robbed the University of Nebraska of its greatest milch cow professor, and broke the heart of the Dean of the College of Agriculture of the University of California by appropriating Professor Nirdenhammer, the wizard of farm management.”
“North Korea last week confirmed an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease, with its state-run news agency saying that "more than 10,000 heads of draught oxen, milch cows and pigs have so far been infected with the diseases and thousands of them died.”
The Washington Post: Starving N. Korea begs for food, but U.S. has concerns about resuming aid
“Labour, however, has always had a down, publicly at any rate, on wealth and wealth creation, seeing wealth and the wealthy merely as a milch cow to enable money be transferred over to the non-productive element of society who are thus made Labour's clients and core vote.”
“Labour aren't interested as they just regard the private sector as a milch cow to be harvested until it dies.”
“It also produces a bureaucratic leviathan that hands the people over to their government from cradle to grave; a government that uses it as milch cow in myriad corrupt deals and patronage of cronies in bent kick-back contracts and no-show jobs.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘milch’.
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Cattle
cattle, cow, beef, steer, heifer, calf, bull, cattle call, Black Angus, Hereford, Holstein, Dwarf Lulu and 402 more...
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RELI - Genesis
Protagonists and relevant words in the Book of Creation (Source: King James Bible)
wrath, leaf, belly, prey, death, break, six, nod, dim, end, inn, judge and 1286 more...
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Galactic Milk - words that lead the ...
conjectures on words related to the roots melg- and (ga)lakts-
galaxy, galena, milch, milk, lettuce, lactic, galenious, moojuice, galax, lactalbumin, emulsion, milch cow and 29 more...
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Les Misérables
A selection of words from the epic by Victor Hugo
perquisites, dispensations, execrate, spikenard, fireplaace, effeminate foppery, delaine, hoarfrost, lackadaisicalness, ort, geldings, milch and 103 more...
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stpeter's Words
abase, abasement, abashed, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abhorrent, abide, abject, ablation, abnegation and 3536 more...
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fbharjo's Words
jumelle, kef, kenspeckle, lautitious, essentic, pilpulistic, impavid, cicurant, clou, chrysostomic, miasma, teleology and 1625 more...
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words from the German
kindergarten, sturm und drang, schadenfreude, zeppelin, blitzkreig, blitz, krieg, panzer, angst, nazi, zeitgeist, doppelganger and 107 more...
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surprising older uses for dried out w...
Some words that might not seem particularly interesting now have been used in the past in surprisingly rich ways. Here are some examples. If you choose to add a word to this list, please provide a ...
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thedaniel's Words
schadenfreude, incorrigible, gestalt, kipple, ansible, frangible, zimboe, runcible, tab sweep, git, invocation, hegelian and 34 more...
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Satan's Gramophone
dank, blouse, poetess, squab, moist, sphincter, roughage, purse, blab, sepulchral, flesh, thigh and 58 more...
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Favourite Etymologies
flak, avocado, cravat, cobalt, kickshaw, brook, smorgasbord, feisty, blatherskite, buckram, execution, oaf and 80 more...
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Good Olde English
yean, nave, ilk, daw, lode, brae, scurf, yond, quench, throng, eftsoons, fang and 26 more...
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molotov
chiaroscuro, sitzbank, cigarette, balcony, sláinte, alfresco, *punch*, grin, babble, molotov, c'mere, kitschy and 57 more...
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ruzuzu What an interesting etymology! Jan 3, 2013
fbharjo from the indo-european root melg- see galenious Jul 25, 2010