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Definitions

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. The state of being milky, or of resembling milk in quality or appearance.
  2. n. Hence Blandness; mildness; softness.

Wiktionary

  1. n. The property of being milky.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. State or quality of being milky.

Etymologies

  1. milky +‎ -ness (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “It is round and rich, with ample blackcurrant, a kind of milkiness (I guess "soft" or "velvet" is a more common description), and some black pepper at the finish.”

    Chinalyst - China blogs in English

  • “The rule is about flavour and was devised for native oysters because their spawning gives them a slight and harmless milkiness in summer months.”

    The Guardian: Letters: Recipe for disaster

  • “And despite the snowy-white Santa Claus beard he's growing for the role, and a very faint milkiness around the edges of his brilliant blue eyes, he's still trim and healthy, a necessity given the rigours of the role – wailing at the heavens, going mad, dying.”

    The Guardian: Derek Jacobi's King Lear: 'I've always felt slightly young for the role, but now I'm 72…'

  • “And I think the point of rice pudding is intense milkiness, unsullied by the thickeners often slipped into stove-top pudding, and distinct grains of ever-so-slightly chewy rice.”

    Northern Comfort

  • “I remember a certain creaminess about it, if not milkiness.”

    Got Milk?

  • “I wonder, would perfumistas from a non-dairy-foods culture, East Asia for example, appreciate milkiness in a perfume?”

    Got Milk?

  • “He could smell the sweet, sad milkiness of her skin.”

    Simon & Schuster: The Forgotten Garden

  • “I like the consistency and the milkiness that the cookie picks up.”

    chocolate hazelnut biscotti | smitten kitchen

  • “My companion for the day Matt persuaded me to accept a soft, misshapen morsel of pure milkiness called Constant Bliss from the knife of the attendant at Jasper Hill Farm.”

    Unfancy like Me

  • “It has the intense green pepperiness of dandelion greens and the milkiness a dandelions sticky sap.”

    Archive 2007-08-01

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